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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them."

"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."

"Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."

"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."

"Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."

"My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter."
Explore more quotes by Joseph Priestley

"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever."

"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."

"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."

"Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing."
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