Lennart Nilsson Quotes

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

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

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

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

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.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.