Richard Le Gallienne Quotes

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

I'm not just a scientist.

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

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

I love sci-fi and period pieces - it's fantasy. I can let myself dream a little bit. But also, I just really love science. I love knowing about how the world works.

Children are just little scientists.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of.

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.