Tadd Giles

“Shallow ideas can be assimilated; ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.”

“I know that most men — not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems — can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty — conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.”

“Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously these are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.”

“All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.”

“All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.”

“It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.”