Quotes about Innovation
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
— Stephen Hawking
Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.
— Bill Gates
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
— Calvin Coolidge
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
— Elbert Hubbard
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
— Al Gore
People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.
— Bill Gates
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.
— Charles Kettering
Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.
— Aldous Huxley
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
— Margaret Atwood
Freedom, the first-born of science.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
— George Bernard Shaw
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
— Oscar Wilde