Idea Quotes

9651 Idea quotes by 5432 unique authors

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. — Frederick Banting
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time that the idea… — Edward Condon
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from… — Robert Fulton
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… — Antoine Lavoisier
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — Unknown Author
[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall,… — Arthur Fry
I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to… — Ryoko Tani
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. — Julia Cameron
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. — Unknown Author
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. — Euan Uglow
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's… — Hanoi Hannah
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still… — Unknown Author
There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. — John H. Vincent
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity — Forest Ray Moulton
The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you… — Gene Hoffman
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What… — Dean Radin
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior." — Amy Vanderbilt
When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us… — F. Matthias Alexander
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom… — John Pugsley
[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a… — Marjory Stephenson
It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and… — Hans Cloos
The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell… — Shirley M. Tilghman
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of change and set… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend

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