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"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
"There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed."
"I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future."
"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."
"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."
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