Ideas Quotes

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The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in… — Gustave Eiffel
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is… — Karl Popper
The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it… — Nikola Tesla
The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson
The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again. — Aristotle
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in… — Carl Sagan
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their… — Wilfred Trotter
There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths… — Gottfried Leibniz
There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the… — Steven Weinberg
We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.… — Richard Dawkins
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second,… — Linus Pauling
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.… — Carl Sagan
[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although… — Linus Pauling
It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes… — Elvis Presley
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. — Isaac Watts
People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic.… — Judy Chicago
Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. — Ezra Pound

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