Echoes

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

Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes real advances in science

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people... Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

The world will hardly admit of an excuse for a man leaving a coast unexplored he has once discovered.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

In every systematic inquiry where there are first principles, or causes, or elements, knowledge and science result from acquiring knowledge of these.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.