Ideas Quotes

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The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be… — Penelope Lively
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... — Erwin Schrodinger
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order… — Wernher von Braun
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the… — Guglielmo Marconi
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a… — Fred Hoyle
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden… — Steven Weinberg
...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient… — Wilhelm Wundt
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. — Claude Bernard
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my… — Rene Descartes
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result… — Nikola Tesla
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that… — Stephen Jay Gould
Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these… — Kurt Lewin
I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work — Carl Sagan
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time… — Albert Einstein
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them:… — Walt Whitman
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for… — George W. Bush
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous… — Henri Poincare
I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his… — Paul Dirac
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but… — Karl Popper
I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll… — Isaac Asimov
Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine. — Theodore Levitt
In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic, because I will… — Louis Agassiz

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