Body Quote by Max Planck

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm…

— Seth Shostak

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

— E. O. Wilson

“Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.”

— Semen Frank

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires…

— Gerald Edelman

The research side of academic life is often viewed from the outside as a solo and, at times, lonely activity. In fact, it is…

— Michael Spence

Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have…

— Clayton Christensen

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.

— William Pollard

“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

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

— Scott Belsky

“An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Breakthroughs arise when someone can combine many ideas together. Think broadly, not deeply.”

— Joshua Krook