Quotes About Innovation

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Structure ignites spontaneity.

Ultimately, the only techniques that can help us are those we invent ourselves.

Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with ever larger engines.

By developing new, often revolutionary products, by moving the country forward, Big Business believed it was doing more than making money; it was doing something virtuous. "The man who builds a factory builds a temple—the man who works there worships there," Calvin Coolidge said.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened. - Friar Tuck

She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone canny fox outwit the hunter often enough to know that it matters little how many horses and men you have. All the wealth and weapons in the world will not catch the fox that refuses to be caught.

To get something different, you must do something different.

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

We tend to think of future inventions and discoveries, but in reality, these things already exist in the knowledge bank of the universe.

There are no new inventions, only new discoveries.

If you want to make dough, do a bun dance.

Your imagination dictates your destination.

You will find your horizons expanding and your thought processes becoming more creative. That is true mind power!

Albert Einstein's equation, E=MC2, is considered to be a theory. Despite being one, we have been able to use it to produce the energy we need to power our cities, as well as the bombs to destroy the same.

Future leaps from the present, formed by the thought processes of mankind.

Everyone used to laugh at him because he was the first one to do it. This was all new to people and it took a bit for everyone to get used to it. Then… yes, you've guessed, I too dyed my hair and other people followed suit as well and the punk explosion was about to hit the scene in a big way.

No successful business was ever made without someone taking a chance, no successful person got to where they are without taking risks, and no endeavor ever succeeded without people taking a gamble.