Ann McKee Quotes

We especially need imagination in science.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

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.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

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

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

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.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Science requires speculation, creativity, and wild ideas.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.