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Quotes About Inspiration

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
~ Tyler Kent White
We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.
~ John Ambrose Fleming
Art is made to trouble but science reassures.
~ Georges Braque
Good writing isn't a science. It's an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
~ David Foster Wallace
It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.
~ Sofia Kovalevskaya
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.
~ John Maynard Smith
Execution is the chariot of genius.
~ William Blake
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
~ Albert Einstein
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.
~ Steve Jobs
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
~ Joseph Campbell
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
~ Arthur Erickson
We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
~ Colin Powell
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.
~ Isaac Asimov
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
~ Tacitus
I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'
~ Syd Mead
I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.
~ Frank Wilczek
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.
~ Robert Ardrey
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
~ Josef Albers
I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.
~ Guy Fieri
I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.
~ Brit Marling
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
~ Albert Einstein