Firsts Quote by Konrad Lorenz

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

— William Pollard

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at…

— Andy Rooney

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the…

— Freeman Dyson

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…

— Wilfred Trotter

After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate…

— Rebecca West

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the…

— Joan Robinson

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts.

— James Bryant Conant

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

— Graham Hancock

“Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they…

— Henry Ford

The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

— Tom Peters

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

— Robert A. Heinlein