Creative Quote by Mary Henle

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart…

— Woody Allen

“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information — this is what it is…

— Eckhart Tolle

Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought.

— Theobald Smith

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

— Jonas Salk

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better…

— Louis L'Amour

Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“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

“Consider Rutherford playing his thoroughly unlikely hunch about alpha backscattering, Heisenberg remembering an obscure remark of Einstein’s and concluding that nature only performed in…

— Richard Rhodes

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

— Spike Jonze