Quotes About Innovation

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Science is the only savior.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.