Alacrity Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

— Robert Genn

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more…

— Edmund Burke

With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication…

— John Paul Caponigro

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends…

— Aldous Huxley

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what…

— Anonymous