Ideas Quotes

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In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. — Charles Kettering
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin… — James Clerk Maxwell
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind… — Richard Courant
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent… — Karl Popper
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question… — Claude Bernard
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind… — George Boole
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything… — Charles Darwin
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane
It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on… — Martin Rees
I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but… — Steven Chu
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. — Samuel Johnson
Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought. — Clifford Stoll
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was… — Steven Weinberg
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. — Sydney Brenner
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. — Miguel de Unamuno
Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"… — Carl Sagan
Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it… — Jacques Loeb
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many… — Bill Gates
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to… — George Polya
The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you… — George Polya

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