Mae Jemison Quotes

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

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

Art is science made clear.

When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

I'm used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

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

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.