Quotes by Novelty An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. Robert Bresson surround old-things novelty Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. Robert Genn novelty path ideas To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good. Robert Winston novelty challenges brain The new is not a fashion, it is a value. Roland Barthes values novelty fashion In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission. Samuel Taylor Coleridge novelty genius philosophy Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. Samuel Johnson admiration novelty firsts Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation. Samuel Johnson novelty life art All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. Samuel Johnson novelty ignorance wonder The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. Samuel Johnson jest novelty expectations Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God. St. Jerome novelty religious giving Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. Stephen Jay Gould novelty innovation religion Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview. Stephen Jay Gould novelty dangerous innovation We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity. T. S. Eliot novelty tests judging If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance. Terence McKenna conservation novelty facts Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved. Terence McKenna novelty situation boundaries This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine. Terence McKenna novelty complexity law The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. Thomas B. Griffith abandoned novelty news There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty. Thomas Hood clamor novelty three In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. Thomas Kuhn novelty resistance expectations The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. Thomas Carlyle novelty innovation insightful «1234567»
