Eric Betzig Quotes

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Conformity is dangerous.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.

I don't want to follow the herd.

The undignified mania of adaptive conformity, exhibited by many of my kinsmen, has always been very repulsive to me.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.

We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.