Quotes About Ideas

People got opinions, that's all they've got.

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked. Cargill

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

Wanting more is a step on the way to a political idea, or so say political theorists, and ideas can have a way of turning themselves into demands.

You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.   Not I, quoth my uncle.   ââ'¬â€But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.—   No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book .

Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, 457 US 853, 872 (1982), when the Supremes memorably sang: Supreme Court precedent condemns school officials who remove books "simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to 'prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas.

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.