Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Ideas Quotes
When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion – the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.
On two occasions I have been asked (by Members of Parliament), ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Everything you see and touch was once an invisible idea until someone chose to bring it into being. Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
Where do you get your crazy ideas?” asked the gentleman twenty rows back, the first question in the second hour of the lecture. There was a mass low chuckle from the couple-thousand people in the Civic Auditorium… he was not the only one curious about that… For the moment I had walked to the footlights […]
A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine… ‘Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned.’ That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue-prints of your ultimate achievements.
