Quotes About Innovation

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.

There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

A genius is a person who, seeing farther and probing deeper than other people, has a different set of ethical valuations from theirs, and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her specific talents.

Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Some men dream of things as they are and say; Why? I dream of things that never were and say; Why not?

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short - a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That´s why all progress depends on unreasonable men.

Alguns homens vêem as coisas como são, e dizem 'Por quê?' Eu sonho com as coisas que nunca foram e digo 'Por que não ?

it's always the patient who has to take the chance when an experiment is necessary. And we can find out nothing without experiment.

La imaginación es el principio de la creación. Imaginamos lo que deseamos, queremos lo que imaginamos y, por fin, creamos lo que queremos.

Dans la vie, il y a deux catégories d'individus : Ceux qui regardent le monde tel qu'il est et se demandent pourquoi. Ceux qui imaginent le monde tel qu'il devrait être et qui se disent : pourquoi pas ?