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Quotes About Innovation

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.
~ Stanley B. Prusiner
Freedom, the first-born of science.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.
~ Roger Lewin
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays.
~ William Cecil Dampier
People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.
~ George Coyne
Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
~ Timothy Leary
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
~ George Iles
Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.
~ Vannevar Bush
Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.
~ Greg Bear
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
~ H. L. Mencken
science is the most revolutionary force in the world.
~ George Sarton
Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.
~ Henri Poincare
Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
~ Walter Mosley
It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.
~ Hosain Rahman
The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
~ Isaac Asimov
Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.
~ Ivan Reitman
I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.
~ Ivan Reitman
I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
~ Ivan Reitman
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
~ James Dyson
Art is science made flesh.
~ Jean Cocteau