Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes

An idea is salvation by imagination.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

I enjoy thinking about ways to create something that other people have not even thought about, something no one has managed to achieve.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Sometimes the best ideas will come in the least inspiring places.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I like trying to be creative.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.