Jenna Wortham Quotes

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

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.

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

We should all seek to innovate, or be curious about innovation. Innovation truly is one of our greatest gifts.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.

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.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Innovation means change.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

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

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.