Neri Oxman Quotes

The world is too complicated to have scientists only talking to scientists.

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

Cross pollination of fields, innovation in one stimulates revolutionary changes in another. All the instruments in a hospital which allow us observation of the human body without cutting you open were based on principles of physicists developed by physicists who had no interest in medicine. This is the way innovation moves from one field to another.

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other;

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

We want to encourage foreign students to come to our universities - to study, research and teach.

I foresee the Globe attracting scholars from all over the world.

I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.