Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.