Quotes About Innovation

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old habits for new and less harmful ones.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

Ford's in his flivver; all's well with the world.

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write Prometheus Unbound. The deliberate forger has little chance with his contemporaries and none at all with posterity.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.

Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they ahd been made for man, not as though man were to be adapted and enslaved to them.

process. It's as beneficial, on its own level, as the hybridization of different strains of maize or chickens.

Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.

New ideas are reasonable if they can be fitted into an already familiar scheme, unreasonable if they cannot be made to fit. Our intellectual prejudices determine the channels along which our reason shall flow.

One must have some basis of experience on which to build an imagination.

Why will you young men continue to write about things that are so entirely uninteresting as the mentality of adolescents and artists?

Oh Ford, oh Ford!

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive.

the goddess of Applied Science has presented the world with another gift, more precious even than these—the means of dissociating love from propagation.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness

Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150.

The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.

science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.