Innovation Quote by Richard Powers

“There are no new inventions, only new discoveries.”

— Stephen Richards

“You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.”

— Anonymous

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

“But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.”

— John Brockman

“Finding WHY is a process of discovery, not invention.”

— Simon Sinek

“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind won't let you.”

— Paul Auster

“People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.”

— Nick Bilton

“Every significant invention must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared…

— Anonymous

“The most important thing is not to work on things that other people are working on because otherwise all you'll do is get the…

— David Jewitt

“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.”

— Walker Percy