“That’s how ideas are generated. Unusual combinations, mixing old and new, stimulate original ideas, that is, ideas with origins.”

“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.”

“The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.”

“All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas — and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“The mind that opens to a new idea, Never comes back to its original size.”

“A man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”

“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.”

“To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.”

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”