Art & Creativity Sayings

419 sayings found from 419 authors

I have not invented a 'death ray'. I don't need a 'death ray' to destroy an army. I can simply create a vibratory force that would shatter the earth.

— Nikola Tesla 1930s
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I am no poet, but if you think for a moment of the energy that is in a single drop of water, you will see a poetry in it.

— Michael Faraday Mid 19th Century (approx.)
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci c. 1490s
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The deaf are not a race apart. They are a part of humanity.

— Alexander Graham Bell c. 1870s-1880s
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

— Benjamin Franklin 1738
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The chemical elements are not created, but are transformed.

— Dmitri Mendeleev Undated
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Not only is the Universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we *can* imagine.

— Werner Heisenberg Undated (likely post-1927)
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Saddened by the times I weep at the flowers tormented by the partings even the birds startle my heart.

— Du Fu c. 757 CE
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Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

— Murasaki Shikibu c. 1000-1012 CE
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The scientist needs a vivid imagination to create hypotheses and theories. The best scientists are also artists.

— Max Planck Unknown
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We are all agreed that the only way of getting a correct impression of the world is to be a part of it.

— Niels Bohr Unknown
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We are part of the world, and the world is part of us.

— Erwin Schrodinger 1958
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.

— Richard Feynman Unknown
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The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

— Stephen Hawking Unknown
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The art of concluding from experience and observation consists in evaluating probabilities.

— Antoine Lavoisier 1770s
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The most beautiful part of the human frame is the eye; and yet it is the most liable to disease.

— Edward Jenner c. 1790s
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The beauty of a crystal lies in its perfect order.

— Rosalind Franklin c. 1940s-1950s
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.

— Francis Crick 1981
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He wolde suffer for a quart of wyn / A good felawe to have his concubyn / A twelf-month, and excuse hym atte fulle.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
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The web is not just for looking up information. It's for connecting people, collaborating, and creating new things.

— Tim Berners-Lee 2019
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