Quotes About Innovation

Mašta ?e nas ?esto odvoditi do svjetova kojih nikada nije bilo. Ali bez nje nikamo ne bismo stigli. Sumnja nam omogu?uje da razlu?imo maštu od ?injenica, da provjerimo naša razmišljanja.

Dartmouth College employs computer learning techniques in a very broad array of courses. For example, a student can gain a deep insight into the statistics of Mendelian genetics in an hour with the computer rather than spend a year crossing fruit flies in the laboratory.

I do not imagine that many people in the fifteenth century ever wondered if they were living in the Italian Renaissance.

When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devising computers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence.

No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.

Our species has discovered a way to communicate through the dark, to transcend immense distances. No means of communication is faster or cheaper or reaches out farther. It's called radio.

abandoning science is the road back into poverty and backwardness

in a dream one must be allowed the liberty of imagining occasionally that which never existed in the world of sense perception.

The great radio telescopes of the world are constructed in remote locations for the same reason Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti: For them to work well, they must be far from civilization.

You could say that my scientific career has been a sequence of free associations. One thing just led to another.

The corollary, one that the United States sometimes fails to grasp, is that abandoning science is the road back into poverty and backwardness.

As the pioneering physicist Benjamin Franklin put it, "In going on with these experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves obliged to destroy?

Our technology has produced thalidomide, CFCs, Agent Orange, nerve gas, pollution of air and water, species extinctions, and industries so powerful they can ruin the climate of the planet.

She began talking the moment Kitz left her office. "What's he after? Vegan death rays?

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species

According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters.

Such stories include Robert Heinlein's The Door into Summer, Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man, Jack Finney's Time and Again, Frank Herbert's Dune and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, "I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you

T]he creativity of the human creature is such that genuinely new realities are regularly brought into being.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

If nature represents a principle of economy, then culture surely must exemplify the principle of innovation through excess.

If you think a hammer is the only way to hammer / A nail, you ain't thought of the nail correctly.

Use Redline wireless, he had argued. Use Bluetooth Extreme. Use something that wasn't hardwired. It was more dependable, less subject to malfunctions than the more rudimentary system they were using might invite. So

the artist can never quite get on terms with God, who as far as creation goes has got there first and pulled off a product hard to beat.