Quotes About Innovation

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.