“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”

— John Locke, book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Dedicatory epistle, as quoted in [Fred R Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC, 2006, Yale University Press, 0-300-10798-6, 468]
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)

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English philosopher and physician 1632–1704

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