Ernst Mach Quotes

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Everything begins with an idea.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

To understand is to invent.

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

I think it's better to have ideas.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

It's always a mystery to me, I have to confess. I've never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there's nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there.

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

Creation begins with vision.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.