Quotes About Innovation

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.