Stanislaw LEM. The Voice Of The Lord (№ 303006)

We are accustomed to the clear, simple situation, when all unknown and dark stretches in front of a solid front of science, and all conquered and understood serves her rear. But in fact, no matter hidden or unknown in nature or buried in directories no one visited the libraries, something that is not included in the circulation of science, fertilizes it, all the same, that does not exist. In any era science's ability to perceive the radically new approach to the phenomena is not too large. The madness and suicide of one of the creators of thermodynamics is just one example of that*.