The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the
opening of new frontiers. - Arthur Koestler
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.
- Edward Eggleston
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand
fallacy. - Benjamin Stolberg
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. - Thomas
A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. - Thomas
A. Edison
I never did a day's work in my life; it was all fun. - Thomas A. Edison
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
- Arther Koestler
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original
dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to
patient observation than to any other reason. - Isaac Newton
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it? - Albert Einstein
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Linus
Pauling
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back
to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then
the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack
of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. - Leonardo Da Vinci
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt
alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that
knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. - Walter Gilbert
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign:
that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan
Saporta
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could
do
anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my
light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until
then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to
stand out of their light. - John W. Gardner
As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great
decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and
solutions
of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude.
- Sigmund Freud
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is
startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first
reaction is one of anger. - W. Somerset Maugham
Every advancement in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John
Dewey