Popularity is not an indication of quality.
Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.
Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.
The word "impossible" is not a scientific term.
The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.