New ideas

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Topic

Resistance to change New ideas

Speaker

Raskolnikov

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

Crime and Punishment

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1866 - Dec. 1866, monthly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Topic

New ideas Innovation Thinking differently Progress

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 32.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 32.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

New ideas Discovery Intuition Innovation Creativity

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Letters of Albert Einstein

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, 3 May 1949.

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Heywood Broun

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Topic

Innovation New ideas Timing Progress

Author

Heywood Broun

Source

New York World

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Broun, Heywood. New York World, 6 Feb. 1928.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

René Descartes

Discourse on Method

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Topic

New ideas

Author

René Descartes

Source

Discourse on Method

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1637 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Descartes, René [published anonymously]. Discours de la Méthode: Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences [Discourse on Method: To Conduct Reason Well, and Seek Truth in the Sciences]. Leiden, 1637, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method, translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 2.