Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

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

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

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?

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.