James Dyson Quotes

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

Definition is the death of discovery.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

Running out of material for 'MythBusters' is like saying, 'We've done everything we could possibly do and we're not curious or interested in anything.' Let's hope that never happens.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.