We place an extraordinary emphasis on getting things right. Few of us like to be wrong. But who and what is the judge? Right can be wrong and wrong can be right.

If we look through the ages at history, the arts, and sciences, we readily see that time has redefined these terms many times and they are likely, inevitably, to change again. Yet we are encouraged to stay within the realm of accepted knowledge and past practice.

While we revere creative thinkers for showing us the new, what is now deemed “right,” each must have reconsidered the paradigms of the day and dared to be wrong.