#innovation

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#children #foundation #give #global #innovation

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#innovation #intelligence #beauty

Boston is known for its innovation. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#innovation #known

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation. ↗

— Mario Monti

#companies #competition #consumers #does #dominant

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#become #boring #cartoonists #draw #find

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#creativity #great #huge #huge opportunity #innovation

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. ↗

— Max Planck

#die #does #gradually #happen #important

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. ↗

— William Pollard

#change #creativity #improvement #incentive #inevitable