Creativity Quotes

Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.

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"The mind that can visualize impossible structures is the mind that can bring them into being."
August Kekulé
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"Innovation springs not from knowing more than others, but from seeing differently than they do."
August Kekulé
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"Innovation requires us to hold two contradictory ideas at once and remain comfortable in that tension."
August Kekulé
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"To see a pattern no one else has seen is to stand at the threshold of discovery."
August Kekulé
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"The researcher must be both romantic and rigorous - imaginative yet precise."
Amedeo Avogadro
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"The investigation of atomic structure demands both precision and imagination."
Gilbert Lewis
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"The electron configuration of an atom is like the fingerprint of its personality."
Gilbert Lewis
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"The mind of a chemist must be both rigorously logical and imaginatively free."
Gilbert Lewis
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"To advance in chemistry, one must marry mathematical precision with chemical intuition."
Gilbert Lewis
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"To advance chemistry, one must be willing to see old things with new eyes."
Gilbert Lewis
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"The scientist who ceases to wonder has already ceased to be a scientist."
Jacques Charles
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"To create is to understand the very essence of existence."
Jacques Charles
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Creativity is the spark of genius."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"Scientific progress demands both imagination and rigorous methodology."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"Creativity in science is the marriage of imagination and evidence."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"The mind that is creative knows no limits."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"To create is to understand; to understand is to create."
Friedrich Wöhler
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"Curiosity is as natural to man as hunger."
Robert Boyle
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"The best discoveries come when we stop looking for what we expect to find."
Robert Boyle
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"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions."
Robert Boyle
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"What we create in our minds becomes manifest in the world."
Robert Boyle
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"The greatest discoveries come from asking fundamental questions."
John Dalton
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"The greatest scientific achievements follow from asking simple questions."
John Dalton
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"I achieved an insight at night. On waking, I immediately set about working out the dream."
August Kekulé
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"The circular form appeared to me in meditation, as if whispered by some inner voice."
August Kekulé
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"The circular structure revealed itself to me as naturally as a flower blooms."
August Kekulé
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"Innovation requires both imagination and discipline."
Gilbert Lewis
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"Imagination is the catalyst for scientific breakthrough."
Gilbert Lewis