David Baker Quotes

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

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

Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

We have a process that continually looks back to him for guidance, but it also combines that with a tremendous amount of discovery and invention, as well, because of the demands of the medium and the opportunities of the medium.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

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

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

I think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.

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

We should have more invention.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We especially need imagination in science.