Creativity Quotes

"Finding the right question is often harder and more important than finding the answer."

"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."

"Problem-solving becomes easier when you refuse to accept artificial constraints."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"Creativity is problem-solving with imagination."

"Creativity flourishes when we honor our unique perspectives."

"An important scientific discovery needs both, the creative thinking and the hard work."

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

"Exaptation explains how structures evolved for one function can be repurposed for another."

"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

"In the fields of observation one must settle for luck; in the fields of imagination one must depend on logic."

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare ourselves for the unknown."

"The greatest men of science are artists as well."

"Be curious about the world in which you live."

"To develop working ideas efficiently, I type out the reasons why an idea might not work."

"The apparent nature of reality changes when we shift perspective."

"Innovation requires having access to the best thinking and the ability to understand it."

"Make problems for yourself and see if you can solve them."

"There is pleasure in recognizing old ideas in a new light."

"We cannot solve problems with the same thinking that created them."

"Passion is the genesis of genius."

"Without passion, there can be no true discovery or innovation."

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees his creation unfolding."

"Originality is the one thing that unprotected talent cannot weather."

"My principal hobby has always been to originate ideas and to develop them."

"I never knew what I was going to invent next."

"We make up meanings because we can and we need to. It is how we create purpose."

"To create something beautiful requires both knowledge and imagination."

"The pleasure of finding things out is the only real scientific motivation."