Quotes About Innovation

the NSA lived by its motto: Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

Nothing is more creative … nor destructive … than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Nothing is more creative Ã¢â'¬Â¦ nor destructive Ã¢â'¬Â¦ than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Consider this!" Edmond declared. "It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took only a few thousand years to invent the printing press. Then it took only a couple hundred years to build a telescope. In the centuries that followed, in ever-shortening spans, we bounded from the steam engine, to gas-powered automobiles, to the Space Shuttle! And then, it took only two decades for us to start modifying our own DNA!

I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certain that the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the eighteenth-century composer who, upon going deaf, discovered he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone.

Scientific advancement carries risk. It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine—they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone's sake.

The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past

When a computer creates art, who is the artist—the computer or the programmer?

You're telling me that CERN dug out millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?

The early Greeks had to look back centuries to study ancient culture, but we need look back only a single generation to find those who lived without the technologies we take for granted today.

The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.

Just because the human mind can't imagine something happening … doesn't mean it won't.

Every great philosophical shift in history began with a single bold idea.

Nothing is more creative … nor destructive … than a brilliant mind with a purpose. By

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. There are those who create... and those who tear down.

This building doesn't just break the rules, Langdon thought. It ignores them completely.

The Geek shall inherit the world

When the Catholic Church first proposed the Big Bang Theory in 1927, the—" "I'm sorry?" Langdon interrupted, before he could stop himself. "You say the Big Bang was a Catholic idea?" Vittoria looked surprised by his question. "Of course. Proposed by a Catholic monk, Georges Lemaître, in 1927.

Impressionists, Cubists, and Surrealists who had stunned the world between 1870 and 1960 by entirely redefining art. VAN GOGH… SEURAT… PICASSO… MUNCH… MATISSE… MAGRITTE… KLIMT… KANDINSKY… JOHNS… HOCKNEY… GAUGUIN… DUCHAMP… DEGAS… CHAGALL… CÉZANNE… CASSATT… BRAQUE… ARP… ALBERS…

Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It releases energy with 100 percent efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5 percent efficient). Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation

My staff is made up of politicians, Rachel, not scientists. You've met Dr. Marlinson. I think he's terrific, but if I let an astrophysicist loose on my team of left-brain, think-inside-the-box intellectuals, I'll end up with a herd of deer in the headlights.

The concept was somewhat like the idea of colonizing Mars—fathomable on an intellectual level, but, at present, well beyond human ability.

It's like having Siri on steroids.