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John H. Lienhard Quotes

To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.

To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.

John H. Lienhard
Memories, Mean, Science
John H. Lienhard (2006). “How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines”, p.227, Oxford University Press

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

John H. Lienhard
Errors, Years, Hundred

The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.

John H. Lienhard
Winning, Creative, Healthy
John H. Lienhard (2003). “The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture”, p.198, Oxford University Press

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

John H. Lienhard
Ifs
John H. Lienhard (2003). “The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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