Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

What I want to do is try to raise the level of SCI-Arc's original mission, which was to be forward-thinking. And let's face it, if you're forward-thinking and you're dealing in concepts of new ideas, history has told us that new ideas are not always wanted by everyone.

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

One may say that in a state of science where fundamental concepts have to be changed, tradition is both the condition for progress and a hindrance. Hence, it usually takes a long time before the new concepts are generally accepted.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

The term 'innovative' or 'innovation' is often vague or ambiguous. But in our definition, innovation means to make something which people think impossible possible.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.