Henri Poincare Quotes

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

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.

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.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.

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

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.