An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.
Ideas Quotes
An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The “taken for granted” is the test of sanity; “what everyone […]
Any innovation threatens the equilibrium of existing organization. In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so that they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses. When one is found, it is assigned to a group for neutralizing […]
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
