Quotes About Innovation

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

God made only water, but man made wine.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.