Original Ideas

Famous quotes containing the words original and/or ideas:

    “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
    —Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)

    “It is certain that the only hope of retroductive reasoning ever reaching the truth is that there may be some natural tendency toward an agreement between the ideas which suggest themselves to the human mind and those which are concerned in the laws of nature.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)