Quotes about Innovation

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Remark

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old habits for new and less harmful ones.

And it's what you never will write, said the Controller. Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.