Quotes About Inspiration

If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.