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Quotes About Innovation

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
~ Chauncey Wright
A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.
~ Confucius
Revolution is the industry of young men.
~ Craig Johnson
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
~ David Ogilvy
I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.
~ DeWitt Wallace
I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.
~ Duncan Jones
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
~ Emanuel Celler
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
~ Erica Jong
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.
~ Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.
~ Sasha Grey
The finest mode of transport known to man.
~ Adam Hart-Davis
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.
~ Augustus William Hare
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
~ B. F. Skinner
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.
~ Benjamin Jowett
It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, 'progress' would become mechanical and trivial.
~ Bertrand Russell
Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.
~ Bill Gates