Catalyst Quote by Michael Atiyah

I am often talking about the ideas collected in Normal Life in contexts that are not academic, or that are full of people who…

— Dean Spade

When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

— Henry Heimlich

“In every domain, from business and politics to science and art, the people who move the world forward with original ideas are rarely paragons…

— Adam M. Grant

I'm so drawn to the frontier mentality and that idea of having to figure everything out from scratch.

— Andrea Zittel

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

— Seth Rogen

You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don't work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is…

— David Longstreth

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds,…

— Madame de Stael

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

— Ridley Scott

The big, fun, ambitious ideas tend to come out of the frustration of talking for too long about the smaller, weaselly ones.

— Derren Brown

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

— Saul Bellow

There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always…

— Noam Chomsky