Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

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

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

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.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

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.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.