Novelty is a concept
Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept. Eva Zeisel
Novelty
I don’t call myself
I don’t call myself an ‘industrial designer,’ because I’m other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept. Eva Zeisel
Why cast yourself over
Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties! Eusebius
I wished to acquire
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; … and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows … Read more
Paleontologists had long been
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin’s postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a different genus or for … Read more
The major novelty of
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. Ernst Mayr
Unformed people delight in
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. Erik Naggum
The birth of the
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind — the mind of a fighter — in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man’s first beginning. Eric … Read more
To the old, the
To the old, the new is usually bad news. Eric Hoffer
The two go hand
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. Eric Chaisson