Mary Shelley Quotes

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

We should be pushing our boundaries. After all, we Britons are explorers and adventurers.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.

I'm always pursuing the next dream, hunting for the next truth.

All progress is experimental.

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

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.