Quotes About Innovation

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

There are no limits to what science can explore.

Science is the acceptance of what works and the rejection of what does not. That needs more courage than we might think.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.