A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.