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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

― Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand De Saussure

The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.

― Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

― Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

― Thomas Sowell

ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.

― Thomas Sowell

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

― Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

― Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

― Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

― Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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