In the minority.

Are you in a minority?

If so, do you feel safe in that minority?

You don't have to be in the majority to be right. In fact the opposite can be true in many cases.

Copernicus was in the minority with his views on the Earth's position in regard to the rest of the planets and the Sun. He knew that the Earth was round and not flat and that the Earth spun around and not the stars and planets.

Leonardo D' Vinci too, was almost on his own with his thinking and futuristic design.

Arthur C. Clarke foretold the orbital communication satellite system while the majority of others doubted both feasibility and use of his foresight.

The Wright Brother's KNEW that heavier than air flight was possible even before perfecting their art in the face of vast scepticism from the general public and even the so-called experts. Even the armed forces couldn't see the full potential.

The electric light was always going to fail, in the minds of the majority, the doubters, until Thomas Edison cracked the problems and the people saw the light. The same too with the telegraph, the telephone, radio, X-Ray, TV, Radar, the computer and many other - at one time - "fanciful contraptions!" which were almost destined to be the province of minority groups, or even individuals.

After the birth of air travel and even after it got to be cheap and popular, the sound barrier would never be broken, but it was. And now the vast majority of the educated populous believe that it's only a matter of time before we crack the light barrier, that we will be able to travel through space at 186,000 miles per second. I'm in the minority who says it will never happen.

Up until World War 2 the moon was still too far away for the majority to believe that we were even close to getting there. That war produced great advancements in rocketry but doubts of space travel still existed in most sane peoples minds. They were truly amazed when we human-beings actually landed there in 1969 and one day soon (cosmologically speaking) we will make it to other planets. I have no doubts about that.

Who would have bet, only a few decades ago, that a submarine would be able to circumnavigate the globe without surfacing even once?

Who would bet that a man would fly a heavier than air, solar powered flying machine around the world. Bertrand Piccard in Solar Impulse will attempt to do that in such a plane, flying some some 23,000 miles in 15 days powered only by rays of sunlight. How many people doubt that this can be achieved in this age? Not many, I would have thought. But only a few decades ago it would have been unthinkable.

Darwin was poo pooed for his belief in natural selection and the ascent of man through evolution. There were only a handful of people who agreed with him at the time. That number has been steadily growing but may still be a minority number if taken throughout the world.

But I'm also in the minority that includes those who dismiss gods as sheer fantasy, though I'll never be proved to be right - or wrong - on this matter.

So don't be scared to be thought of as odd. You may be odd but you may be right.