Generalization Quote by C. S. Lewis

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

— E. O. Wilson

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

— Rene Thom

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external…

— Albert Einstein

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

— William James

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

— Susan Sontag

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a…

— Albert Einstein

“Hence we may at once dismiss as easily foreseen but futile objection, “that by our admitting the ideality of space and of time the…

— Immanuel Kant

Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be…

— Frederick Lenz

Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live…

— Eugenio Maria de Hostos

“To suggest that the first cause, the great unknown which is responsible for something existing rather than nothing, is a being capable of designing…

— Richard Dawkins

“A brilliant idea is like a baby in a mothers womb. You need to bring it out in the world, nurture it, feed it,…

— Manoj Arora