Favors Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“So design your space for flexibility instead of inertia and the status quo.”

— Tom Kelley

“It takes much more than logic and clear-cut demonstrations to overcome the inertia and dogma of established thought.”

— Irwin Stone

Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law…

— Albert Einstein

Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received…

— Alfred North Whitehead

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good…

— Vijay Prashad

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important…

— Paul Nurse

“There is something lamentable, degrading, and almost insane in pursuing the visionary schemes of past ages with dogged determination, in paths of learning which…

— Henry Dircks

“The way of the Essentialist is the relentless pursuit of less but better. It doesn’t mean occasionally giving a nod to the principle. It…

— Greg McKeown

Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to…

— Warren Buffett

“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens…inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which…

— Anthony Everitt

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery -…

— Alfred North Whitehead