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Quotes About Innovation

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.
~ William Herschel
As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.
~ Steven Chu
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
~ Max Planck
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
~ Thomas Kuhn
No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll
~ Brian Cox
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.
~ Albert Einstein
A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.
~ Raymond Loewy
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.
~ Eric Kandel
Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.
~ Paul Dirac
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
~ Vinoba Bhave
Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
~ Josef Albers
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
~ Herbert Spencer
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.
~ Charles Babbage
Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.
~ D. Elton Trueblood
The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.
~ Claude C. Hopkins
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
~ Voltaire
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
~ Frank Zappa
Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.
~ Thomas Kuhn
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
~ Karl Pearson
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
~ Bill Gates
Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.
~ Calvin Coolidge