Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

Creativity is as important as literacy.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

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

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

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

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.