Edith Widder Quotes

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

I am always looking to the future of making things.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

I always like to tweak things and push things forward.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

I am a great believer in research and innovation.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.