Martin H. Fischer Quotes

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

I don't like the intellectual label.

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

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.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

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.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.