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Quotes About Innovation

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.
~ Louis Kahn
Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.
~ Alexander Fleming
Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.
~ Hannibal
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
~ Nikola Tesla
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
~ Nikola Tesla
I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
~ Lady Gaga
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
~ Eric Hoffer
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
~ Terry Pratchett
Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.
~ Karim Rashid
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
~ Philip Shabecoff
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
~ Frank Herbert
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
~ Janine Benyus
If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?
~ Ismail Kadare
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.
~ Fernando Botero
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
~ Man Ray
That's the nature of research you don't know what in hell you're doing.
~ Harold Eugene Edgerton
What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'
~ Janine Benyus
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
~ Theodore Levitt
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
~ Uta Hagen
The photogram, or camera-less record of forms produced by light, which embodies the unique nature of the photographic process, is the real key to photography.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.
~ Francois Jacob
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
~ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.
~ Helmut Newton