Oh, how popular opinion and the assessment of merit relies on the stifling regurgitation of foregone knowledge, quite different from unprecedented imagination to break the norm of how society should work. From a response to a comment on why Classical Economics is Voodoo Science.

Knowledge Is Hindsight, Imagination Is Foresight
The sign of an intelligent nation is its willingness and ability to reinvent itself, upstream. Let’s inspire the world with new rigors of excellence we first and successfully apply to ourselves.