Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

People get surprised by my choices. But that comes from me looking for something new.

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

You really want to keep ringing the changes - you hope that your work and your choices make people excited about where you're going next and that that might be somewhere unexpected.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

I'm always trying to think of things we haven't done.

There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.