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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. — Walter Jon Williams
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he… — Thomas Kuhn
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to… — David Lehman
Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you… — Eusebius
A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not… — Henry David Thoreau
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a… — Pauline Gower
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet. — Isabella Bird
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition… — B.F. Skinner
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by… — Joseph Wood Krutch
What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known? — George Eliot
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a… — Eric Hoffer
I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was… — Juliana Hatfield
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. — Kenneth E. Boulding
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and… — Helen Rowland
What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion,… — Robert M. Pirsig
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty. — Denis Diderot
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to… — David Hume

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