Novelty Quotes

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!

In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.

All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you.

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

You always have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.