New Ideas Quotes

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received--hatred. The great creators--the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors--stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed.

To innovate is not to reform.

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Every innovation is misguidance, even if the people see it as something good.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don't conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything - new ideas and established wisdom.

I may fail today, but if I have another idea tomorrow, maybe it will work.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

… embrace new ideas with energy!

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The new idea for me now is creativity. I like to express myself.

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.