Creativity Quote by Frans P.B. Osinga

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

— Karl Popper

“I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by…

— Ed Catmull

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

— Albert Einstein

“Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong.”

— Thomas S. Kuhn

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what…

— Anonymous

“Nothing is ever actually invented by the mind. The mind puts things together and constructs false "ideas”

— Jostein Gaarder

“When it is found (as generally happens) that what is observed is only similar to what he had in mind and not identical, then…

— David Bohm

Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius…

— Bernard Lonergan

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

— Spike Jonze

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

— Edward de Bono

“It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover," said the mathematician Henri Poincare.l”

— Ellen J. Langer

“Those insights in science that have led to a breakthrough were not logically derived from preexisting knowledge: The creative processes on which the progress…

— William Lanouette