Simple ideas beget our greatest works.(Brief Article) From: Industry Week | Date: November 1, 1999| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1999 Penton Media, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Swiss chemist Paracelsus wrote: "Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature, create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow."

* Writer Blaise Pascal maintained: "Man's greatness lies in the power of thought."

* Philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote: "Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."

I could name at least 100 other writers who have expressed similar thoughts about idea generation. Thoughts about ...