Innovation Quote by Richard Powers Download Open image ““Do not invent anything; simply discover it.”” — Richard Powers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innovation Research
“You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“But discoveries are what usually egg us on. Not finding anything would be very bad indeed.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.” — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“You had to invent something. It's not possible to leave it blank. The mind won't let you.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“People don’t invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.” — Nick Bilton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that. — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions. — Ann Makosinski Copy Share Image
“Some innovations just don’t attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in… — Martin J. Rees Copy Share Image
