Quotes About Innovation

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Play is the highest form of research.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

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

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.