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.

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

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

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.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

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.

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

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

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.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

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.

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

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

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.

Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much, without the risk of losing them, and with the pleasure of novelty.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.

I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.