Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

I’m convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive – that challenge conventional thinking – and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way…why change?...

A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is...

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect)...

Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.

We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let...

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

We always need new ideas to free us from the old ones.