Quotes about Ingenuity

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

So unworldly was he--or so capricious--that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui.

I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.

Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.

The Congressional Art Competition encourages and cultivates the ingenuity and creativity of young people in our region.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.