"To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teac..."
- Fritz Zwicky
"Front offices are more interested in players that are far than players that are near."
- Jim Bouton
"The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they thi..."
- Warren W. Wiersbe
"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not."
- John Cage
"It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slightly obscene object, now slipping impotently on the polished boards, now striding across the card-table,..."
- Evelyn Waugh
"Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being q..."
- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
"We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things."
- Jonathan Haidt
"Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented in order to keep getting better; innovations expand what they al..."
"Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment."
- Ron Brackin
"In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel."
- Walter de la Mare