Quotes About Innovation

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

Let the experiment be made.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

I'm basically a computer science nerd.

In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.