Quotes About Innovation

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

All significant breakthroughs are break -"withs" old ways of thinking.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Science and art are not opposed.