Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.

If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that's retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there's something new that comes along that's too exciting to quit.

In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

One can only improvise what one knows.

If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn't do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.

We stand on the shoulders of giants - and that's something we can never forget.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.

Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.

To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.