David Oyelowo Quotes

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.

I always love novels that open up a subject to me - like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is not so obvious, that you can look at a trivial situation from a different angle and suddenly reveal other meanings and levels.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.