Quotes About Innovation

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Man is a tool-using animal.

The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.

If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

Time is the greatest innovator.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.