“Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented… — Gene Edward Veith Copy Share Image
The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who… — Boudleaux Bryant Copy Share Image
If I advance new views in Philosophy or Theology, I cannot expect to have many adherents among minds altogether unprepared for such… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“The novelty and freshness you'll bring to the field won't come from the new ideas you think up. Truly new ideas are… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Since novelty is what your brain craves, you’ll be tempted to move on to something new, and that could be what makes… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out,… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks...… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
This is the evolutionary value of play- play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid.… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
