Quotes About Innovation

The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

The creator seeks companions, not corpses- and not herds or believers either. The creator seeks fellow-creators - those who grave new values on new law-tablets.

Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves

Behold the good and just! Whom do they hate most? The man who breaks their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker:- yet he is the creator.

Beethoven's music is music about music.

Of what use is a book that never transports us beyond all books

He who strays from tradition becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who remains in tradition is its slave. Destruction follows in any case.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed.?In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

The creator seeks companions, not corpses or herds or believers. The creator seeks fellow-creators, those who inscribe new values on new tables. The

Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

The Germans invented gunpowder—all credit to them! but they again made things square—they invented printing.)

Modern toys entertain them with a bag of tricks that leave the young 'uns no room for imagination. They couldn't possibly think up, on their own, all the screwy things these new toys do.

Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called "modern" ideas are really old errors with new labels.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

There are fads ion science, just as there are fads in clothes

Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica.

And even in circumstances less critical, women were almost always welcomed in new enterprises that hadn't yet become either prestigious or profitable—whether it was early radio or early cattle drives.

E pur si muove. (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun .)

Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?

To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.

Y sin embargo, se mueve! (Eppur si muove)