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Quotes About Innovation

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.
~ Brian Stableford
I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.
~ Donald Knuth
The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
~ Stephen Hawking
Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.
~ Claude Bernard
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
~ Thomas Sowell
In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
~ Dimitar Sasselov
Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?
~ Susan Hockfield
Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.
~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.
~ Enrico Bombieri
At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.
~ Poul Anderson
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
~ Robert Winston
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.
~ Richard Dawkins
That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?
~ Esther Hicks
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.
~ Francois Hollande
Science is prediction, not explanation.
~ Fred Hoyle
Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.
~ Frederick Lenz
Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!
~ Frederick Lenz
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
~ Stephen Hawking
Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
~ Friedrich Schiller