Quotes About Innovation

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Art can contradict Science.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.