Quotes About Innovation

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

People will always try to stop you doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Time was when we made our own toys; when a piece of twine, a spool, a few nails and a bit of imagination could keep us busy and happy all day long.

The joy of creation does not fade, for in that lies our divinity and our claim to eternity.

Nothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues. A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others, and may chance to make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

To innovate is not to reform.

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This country of ours consists of pioneers, after

Only by testing do we learn what is really appealing and feasible—and, in the process, create our own opportunities.

Capitalism must be kept alive by non-capitalist methods.

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

The creation of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, crated far out of the reach of observation.

The creations of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, created far out of the reach of observation.

Eukaryotes topped that trick with yet another innovation—an elaborately orchestrated breakthrough in cell-division called meiosis.

The journal Science went so far as to predict that farmers might go from eking out pennies in old-style agriculture to making a handsome profit in the twenty-first century by turning their efforts to "pharming" 40—raising pharmaceutical-producing herds and crops.

If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies

The true task of education, Alfred North Whitehead cautioned, is to abjure stale knowledge. "Knowledge does not keep any better than fish," he said. We need to keep it alive, vital, potent.

before the Bessemer process, iron was hardened into steel at the rate of 3 to 5 tons a day; now the same amount could be processed in 15 minutes). Machines

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Don't be afraid to do something different Dare to be something more.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro