Quotations about Innovation, Creativity and Genius

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

-Charles Brower

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."

-Frank Capra

"Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

-Thomas Edison

"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

-Julius Sextus Frontinus (1st century A.D.)

"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

-William James

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

-Isaac Newton

"I do not seek. I find. (Je ne cherche pas; je trouve)"

-Pablo Picasso

"Neccesity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife."

-Jonathan Schattke

"The art of creation is older than the art of killing."

-Andrei Voznesensky

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first"

-Alfred North Whitehead

"The "silly question" is the first intimation of some totally new development.

-Alfred North Whitehead

"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."

-Ovid (43 B.C. - 18 A.D.)

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

-James Russell Lowell

"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

-Werner Heisenberg

"In all science error precedes truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

-Sir Robert Walpole

"Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse."

-James Carswell

Neccesity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.

-Jonathon Schattke

"I do not fear computers. I fear a lack of them."

-Isaac Asimov

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."

-Galileo Galilei

"If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it."

-Arthur Kasspe

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

-Jules De Gaultier

"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."

-Wernher von Braun

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

-Walt Disney

"Progress is made by lazy men looking for an easier way to do things."

-Lazarus Long

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."

-Niels Bohr

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