Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.