David S. Goyer Quotes

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down into a category, like Da Vinci or Jean Cocteau. You could say Cocteau was a great poet but also a film-maker, interested in theatre, sculpture, and could never identify with any of these forms exclusively.

There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

I'm an inventor.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!

There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

Genius is intellect constructive.