"The histories of philosophy and science are often forgotten in a rush to believe what we want to believe. Good ideas regularly go missing, and bad ideas often win the day. Good ideas are sometimes found again, but not always. Why some thoughts live and others die depends on multiple factors, most often, the context for their understanding. A man or a woman can sit in a room and think critically and well and write books and publish them, but that is no guarantee that others will be able to comprehend those ideas or go on to embrace them. The ideas must resonate in the culture."
— Siri Hustvedt, The Delusions of Certainty