Quotes About Innovation

The poor bloody poet can no longer say "ope" for "open," or "swain" for "youth," he is expected to construct new poems out of the plastic and Styrofoam garbage that litters the twentieth-century linguistic floor, to make fresh art from the used verbal condoms of social intercourse.

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand time smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965.

And one final point—we never really know where the next great scientific discovery will come from, nor who will make it. Opening up the thrill and wonder of scientific discovery, creating innovative and accessible ways to reach out to the widest young audience possible, greatly increases the chances of finding and inspiring the new Einstein. Wherever she might be.

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.

Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let's make sure that wisdom wins.

Maybe it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive.

When we invented fire, we messed up repeatedly, then invented the fire extinguisher. With more powerful technologies such as nuclear weapons, synthetic biology and strong artificial intelligence, we should instead plan ahead and aim to get things right the first time, because it may be the only chance we will get. Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let's make sure that wisdom wins.

real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying.

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries….The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature.

But real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying.

One way or another, I regard it as almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years which, as geological time goes, is the mere blink of an eye. By then I hope and believe that our ingenious race will have found a way to slip the surly bonds of Earth and will therefore survive the disaster.

I was lucky to lose my voice at the beginning of the personal computing age.

La inteligencia se caracteriza por la capacidad de adaptarse a los cambios. La inteligencia humana es el resultado de muchas generaciones de selección natural, de aquellos con la capacidad de adaptarse a circunstancias cambiantes. No debemos temer el cambio. Tenemos que hacer que funcione a nuestro favor.

The story that Newton was inspired by an apple hitting his head is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat 'in a contemplative mood' and 'was occasioned by the fall of an apple.')

It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage.

But what lies ahead for those who are young now? I can say with confidence that their future will depend more on science and technology than any previous generation's has done. They need to know about science more than any before them because it is part of their daily lives in an unprecedented way.

Opening up the thrill and wonder of scientific discovery, creating innovative and accessible ways to reach out to the widest young audience possible, greatly increases the chances of finding and inspiring the new Einstein. Wherever she might be.

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape.