Adversity Quote by Thomas Kuhn

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

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Either as a metaphor or because it reflects the nature of the mind, that psychological experiment provides a wonderfully simple and cogent schema for…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that…

— Heinrich Rohrer

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that…

— Marvin Minsky

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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

— Robert Genn

The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us,…

— John Ruskin

“when something breaks the cause-and-effect pattern we've come to expect — when we encounter something outside the norm — we suddenly become aware of…

— Nir Eyal

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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