“Co-opted convictions will always betray you.”— Charles M. Blow Related Quotes “He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.”— Aidan Chambers “There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely”— “Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson