A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
Michael Faraday, The Life and Letters of Faraday, Vol. II
Everything can always be done better than it is being done.
Henry Ford, My Life and Work
Every impression produced a thousand echoes in my mind. I wanted to know more of this wonderful force…
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series
Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
We learn wisdom from failure more than from success: we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and he who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
…if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week…
Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
Humanity, surely, needs practical men who make the best of their work for the sake of their own interests, without forgetting the general interest. But it also needs dreamers, for whom the unselfish following of a purpose is so imperative that it becomes impossible for them to devote much attention to their own material benefit.
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
Without the sense of collaborating with like-minded beings in the pursuit of the ever unattainable in art and scientific research, my life would have been empty.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
There are five notes; but by combinations, innumerable harmonies are produced. There are but five colours; but if we mix them, the shades are infinite.
Sun Tzu, The Book of War
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
A poet is a man who is glad of something, and tries to make other people glad of it too.
George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind