David Deutsch Quotes

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.