There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. – P. W. Bridgman

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon

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Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. – Mark Amidon

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The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. – Linus Pauling

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Ideas corrode the international fences. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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