Ideas Quotes

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As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.… — Albert Einstein
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business,… — Vernon Howard
...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out. — David McCullough
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the… — Bertrand Russell
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take… — Muhammad Yunus
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases… — Francis Galton
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the… — Michael Faraday
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;… — Muhammad Yunus
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a… — G. H. Hardy
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a… — G. H. Hardy
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks,… — Richard P. Feynman
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man… — Archibald MacLeish
I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me. — Ray Bradbury
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. — Angela Carter
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. — Mark Twain
You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are. — B. C. Forbes
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… — Abraham Lincoln
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the… — Noah Webster
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to… — Ronald Reagan

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