Only the accustomed and the commonplace do men take kindly at once. The strange terrifies them. It is with ideas in men as with unfamiliar sights in beasts. Both shy at first at what they have never seen before. Scientists and layman alike are afraid to commit themselves to that upon which they have not been brought up.

In: William Graves Hoyt, Lowell and Mars, Chapter 15 (p. 298), University of Arizona Press. 1976