Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

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

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

Prepare for the new; expect the new; embrace the new. Otherwise, you'll just repeat what's old.

It's important to keep challenging myself and try to come up with some new face every now and again.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.