Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

We especially need imagination in science.

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

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

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

Kids have some of the best ideas - bringing new eyes to old problems.

I like to think limitlessly, and you can't be limitless if you're constantly looking at best practices.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

I've always had my own opinions and have always been somebody who thinks outside the box.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

If you're inside the box and a cross is coming, sometimes you need, as we say in Spanish, to smell the intuition, to smell where the cross is going.

I think it would be fun to walk around in Bill Murray's mind for a while.