Established Beliefs Quotes

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. I do pray. I pray to something ... up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess ... Do unto others: How much deeper into religion do we really need to go?

I come from a very conventional and non-political background.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.