Quotes About Innovation

Uniformity of design was considered as fatal to the freshness of imagination.

It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness. Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality in architecture.

Industry was subordinated to the conscious social goal. Science, formerly the slave of industry, became the free colleague of wisdom.

cars powered by solar panels that fit into the trunk

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

What do you plan to do that others cannot do better?

If no one out there understands Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman. —BILLY BRAGG, "WAITING FOR THE GREAT LEAP FORWARDS

That was a new generation of literature—text without spine, fleeting copy, something like the Kleenex that took the helm after the abdication of cloth handkerchiefs.

If you think you are capable of destruction, think how you could build.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

These last have been the men of science, the great and heaven-born men of science; and they are few. In

Archimedes, one of the greatest men of science there has ever been, and the father of physics.

The man I spoke of as coming two hundred years later is Leonardo da Vinci. True

The middle of the next century must be taken as the real dawn of modern science; for the year 1543 marks the publication of the life-work of Copernicus. Nicolas Copernik was his proper name. Copernicus

Copernicus lived from 1473 to 1543, and

Tycho Brahé from 1546 to 1601. Kepler from 1571 to 1630. Galileo from 1564 to 1642. Gilbert from 1540 to 1603. Francis Bacon from 1561 to 1626. Descartes from 1596 to 1650.

there is a second lesson from Grübler's studies of past energy transitions to be confronted. They have, in the main, been driven not by the availability of new ways of providing energy, but by new ways of using it: transitions are pulled by demand, not pushed by supply.

Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.