Quotes about Innovation

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

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.