The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
~ Nikola Tesla
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
~ Eugène Delacroix
The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.
~ Mike Pence
Labor gives birth to ideas.
~ Jim Rohn
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
~ Penn Jillette
A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of.
~ Diplo
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
~ Robert Bork
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
~ Edward Thorndike
I read a book called 'The Tao of Physics' by Fritjof Capra that pointed out the parallels between quantum physics and eastern mysticism. I started to feel there was more to reality than conventional science allowed for and some interesting ideas that it hadn't got round to investigating, such as altered states of consciousness.
~ Brian Josephson
I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.
~ Gene Luen Yang
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
~ Albert Einstein
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
~ Herbert Spencer
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
~ James Dyson
The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
~ George Santayana
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
~ Brian Greene
I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.
~ Linus Torvalds
When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
~ Vernor Vinge
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
~ Paul Berg
It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.
~ Brandon Webb
I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
~ Moby
Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.
~ Myles Munroe
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.
~ Tom Robbins
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
~ Bob Dylan
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
~ Jerry Garcia
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
~ Karl Marx
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
~ Eric Bentley
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
~ Kanye West
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
~ George Orwell
Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.
~ Adeo Ressi
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
~ Susan Sontag
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
~ Rachel Mcadams
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
~ Leon Krier
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
~ Carl Bernstein
Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.
~ Martha Beck
There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
~ Jonathan Ive
I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.
~ Emma Watson
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
~ Brian Eno
I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.
~ Alain De Botton
