This gentleman may have rarely combed his hair, but his works include more than fifty scientific papers and a number of non-scientific books. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics and is revered all across the world. In popular culture, the name “Einstein” has become another word for genius!

It may be worth your while to check his views on what it takes to master the game of innovation…

• Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.
• It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
• If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
• We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
• The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.