Quotes About Inspiration

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Why don't you light that candle ?

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.