Acceptance Quote by Bernard Lown

The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth…

— Kurt Lewin

One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and…

— Werner Heisenberg

An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.

— George Polya

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man…

— Anonymous

Some ideas need to be continually reinvented and rediscovered, particularly an idea like the omnipotence of humans. It takes a long time to give…

— David Holmgren

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

— George Polya

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

— Karl Albrecht

“The more time you spend mapping out an approach, the more likely you are to get attached to it. The nonworking idea gets worn…

— Ed Catmull

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out,…

— Peter Elbow

The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter…

— Max Planck

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster…

— Anne Morice

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

— William James