Louis Pasteur Quotes

Without theory we can only copy.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

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

We should have more invention.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.