<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishHebu tuseme mtu anakuambia kwamba, miaka mingi iliyopita, alifanya ugunduzi wa msingi ambao taaluma nzima, kwa akili ndogo kabisa, ilikataa kusikiliza na kumzuia kuchapisha.  <response>: Suppose that someone tells you that, years ago, he made a fundamental discovery that an entire profession, out of sheer narrow-mindedness, refused to listen to and prevented him from publishing. 