Quotes About Creativity

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

We especially need imagination in science.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I'd be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention's father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn't been heard of since.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.

The beauty of a thought is true science fiction.

Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!

I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it's the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction.

Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact

Science fiction has no ceiling.

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

When all else fails, use the pen.EMW

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

The inventors of tools enhance civilization, but the author of ideas enables them to invent.