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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

Abraham Pais
Loss, Discovery, Physicist
"Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.