Jean Piaget Quotes

What I can't create I don't understand

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

He who does not know how to create should not know.

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

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

I like creating new things.

I like to create new things.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Without theory we can only copy.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

We can invent only with memory.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.