Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

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

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

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

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.

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE.

Progress in science occurs in fits and starts, and paradigm shifts occur when evidence can be marshaled to support a new point of view.

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

I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap