Assimilation Quote by Anonymous

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

— William James

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of…

— David Bohm

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

— Arthur Koestler

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

— Bernard Lown

“My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.”

— John Piper

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

— Warren Buffett

It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

— Anonymous

“It is of great consequence to have previously determined the concept that one wants to elucidate through observation before questioning experience about it; for…

— Immanuel Kant

“Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect…

— Marc Bloch

“The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

— Jefferson Davis

“Many people fail to achieve originality because they generate a few ideas and then obsess about refining them to perfection.”

— Adam M. Grant