Quotes About Innovation

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

I've always been interested in science fiction

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

Science is just magic with better PR.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.