Quotes about Innovation

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.

What is originality in art? Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not and this may be done by saying that it is never a willful rejection of what has been accepted as the necessary laws of various forms of art. Thus in reasoning originality relies not in discarding the necessary laws of thought, but in using them to express new intellectual conceptions. In poetry originality consists not in discarding the necessary laws of rhythm but in finding new rhythms within the limits of those laws.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them