We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty. — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless,… — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product.… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because… — Banksy Copy Share Image
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
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![“Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.” quote by John Herschel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91d/john-herschel-18983_accustomed_accustomed-to-trace-the-operation-of-gen_1136585.jpg)
