A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Ideas Quotes
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Memes should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically. When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme’s propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell. And this isn’t just […]
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually […]
At the moment it’s just a Notion, but with a bit of backing I think I could turn it into a Concept, and then an Idea.
An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the […]
(John) Sparrow had no interest in ideas. Presented with any problem, his acute mind would unerringly light on the outer periphery, there to play with some marginal triviality.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring.
