John B. Goodenough Quotes

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

We can invent only with memory.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.