Quotes About Innovation

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Judge me by my future works.

And intellect at Christminster is new wine in old bottles.

It is better to accept any chance that offers itself, and then extemporise a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.

The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

our 'Physick' and 'Anatomy' have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not unsuccessfully, with such complex problems, that the eyes of Vesalius and of Harvey might be dazzled by the sight of the tree that has grown out of their grain of mustard seed.

T]he constitution of man's nature is of itself subject to desire novelty.

The first-generation affluent are typically entrepreneurs.

Eighty percent of America's millionaires are first-generation rich.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

Every generation needs a new revolution.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions...but I know also that laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.....

A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done

If you want something you never had, you have to do something you've never done

If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.

Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it.