Frederick Seitz Quotes

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

Invention breeds invention.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

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.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

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.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.