Stefan Hell Quotes

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

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

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

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

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.