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Quotes About Innovation

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
~ Burton Richter
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
~ Marie Curie
Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
~ Peter Landin
Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.
~ Theodore von Karman
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
~ Irene Joliot-Curie
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
~ Reginald Fessenden
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
~ Galileo Galilei
I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.
~ Sebastian Thrun
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
~ Robert H. Goddard
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.
~ Don Spencer
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
~ Kenny Marchant
Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.
~ Al Hirschfeld
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
~ Erik Adigard
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
~ Max Weber
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
~ Samuel Florman
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
~ Francis Bacon
Our true mentor in life is science.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
~ Albert Einstein
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
~ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
We need to make science cool again.
~ Sally Ride
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.
~ Donald Knuth
Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.
~ John F. Kennedy