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“I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.”

Ifs World Want Believe I Believe Tradition Innovation Blind Majority Silent Protest Civilized Individualism Irrational Backwards Blindness Blind Faith Silent Majority

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.”

May Art Earth Form Opinion Modern Theory Innovation Originals Majority Rounds Radical Flats Airplane Hostile Cables Automobile Modernism Modern Art Protestantism Majority Opinion

Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.”

Firsts Humans Literature Fear Human Beings Atheism Fool Innovation Majority Notion Appearance Familiar Dislike Dread Madmen Innovators Persecuted Willful Ignorance

Author:Aldous Huxley

“On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.”

Years Looks Names Energy Sides Cases Havens Innovation Majority Moved Billions Budgets Department Categories Funding

Author:Bill Gates

“The two most important forms of diversity when it comes to innovation are visible diversity (typically skin color, age, gender, etc.) and underrepresentation (anytime someone is less than 15% of the majority group). Other forms of diversity are also relevant but these are the ones that psychologically play the most role in how someone engages with the innovative process.”

Two Important Play Age Form Process Roles Groups Color Diversity Skins Innovation Majority Gender Visible Etc Relevant Innovative Skin Color

Author:David Livermore

“The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.”

Kind Results Air Products Truth Is Tradition Innovation Majority Percentages New Words Thin Air

Author:Susie Dent

“Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.”

Should Force Innovation Majority Presidential Slender

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816