“Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.”
"The Game of the Law" In Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses (1931), p. 163
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“Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.”
The Guardian, http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/karl-lagerfeld-launches-his-first-india-collection-with-an-alice-in-wonderland-style-tea-party.html 12 December 2011

“Technique without inspiration, is barren.”
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Context: Technique without inspiration, is barren. Intellectual powers, sense facts and imaginative fancies may result in clever verses, repetition of old themes, but they are only manufactured poetry. It is not simply a difference of quality but a difference of kind in the source itself.
Excerpts from a speech at the launch of the NAP, 8 April 2005
100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
“The past is… much more uncertain—or even falsely reported—than is usually recognized.”
Preface
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)

“Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 40; often translated as "The half is greater than the whole."

Source: 1950s, The development of operations research as a science, 1956, p. 265, the lead paragraph ; Cited in: Joe Kelly (1969) Organizational behaviour. p. 26.

reported by Lance Dixon http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/10/03/guest-post-lance-dixon-on-calculating-amplitudes/