Heinrich Rohrer Quotes

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

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

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

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

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

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

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.

Definition is the death of discovery.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Don't accept what's out there because that is all that's out there. Look for the new and unusual. Seek out what you genuinely want to read and don't settle.

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.