Quotes About Innovation

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.