An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.  Victor Hugo quotes A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for labels... and the last thing the world needs is another religion. Richard Bach quotes Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes Never have ideas about children -- and never have ideas for them. D.H. Lawrence quotes Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God. Rabindranath Tagore quotes An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better. Samuel Butler quotes Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. Victor Hugo quotes Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being. Albert Einstein quotes Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path - that I cannot know. Albert Einstein quotes | 
