Quotes About Innovation

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

New truth is old heresy.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

I definitely invented the everything bagel. There's no doubt. It's undeniable truth. It's one of those things that's 100% true, 50% of the time.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.