Marshall McLuhan Quotes

What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way.

Best of all, persons can sometimes be app-transcendent: making dramatic progress or discoveries, without any dependence on any app. In this context, I like to mention Steve Jobs. While he had as much to do as anyone with the invention and development of apps, he NEVER was limited by the current technology - indeed, he typically transcended it and relied on his own considerable wits.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

Discovering a new explanation is inherently an act of creativity.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

Ideas come from curiosity.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.