Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I am just like the movie, 'Back to the Future.'

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

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

I think we need ideas for the future.

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

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.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.