Henry Adams Quotes

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

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

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.

The best ideas come out of getting lost.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

When you're in your own world, you don't know what's outside your world, so you can do whatever you want.

We did what we wanted to do, made it work, and made our own rules - and the best art we could - along the way.

Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.

One thing we've always wanted to do is just do things our way, and we've always talked about having our own festival.

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

Follow no path. Make your own.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.