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Creativity/Ideas

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain




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