#nova

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#create #economy #federal #federal government #going

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. ↗

— George Lucas

#happened #immaculate #innovation #part #quest

But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#bring #concerts #connect #each #festivals

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#brothers #go #homes #istanbul #japan

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#calls #creative #current #education #innovations

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

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#best #creative #creative environment #environment #find

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