“Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”

Source: The God Delusion

Letter to Andrew Jackson (3 December 1806)
1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)

Vintage, p. 25
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)

Source: The Wordy Shipmates

critical quote of Lissitzky c. 1923, in Proun Space - in An Architecture for World Revolution, El Lissitzky; translation Eric Dluhosch; Lund Humphries, London: 1970, p. 138
1915 - 1925

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1"
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
Context: On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Segment 144
Peoples Archive interview
Context: The extraordinary surprise that my first pictures provoked is unlikely to be continued. Many people saw them fifteen years ago, ten years ago. Now children see it on their computers when the computers do nothing else. The surprise is not there. The shock of novelty is not there. Therefore the unity that the shock of novelty, surprise, provided to all these activities will not continue. People will know about fractals earlier and earlier, more and more progressively. I think that the best future to expect and perhaps also the best future to hope for, is that fractal ideas will remain either as a peripheral or as a central tool in very many fields.

1968: The Year That Rocked the World