Inventions Quotes · Page 4

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Negative thinking is as important as creative thinking... because if creative thinking invented the airplane, then negative thinking invented parachute!

— Simi Ngr

Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.

— William Shakespeare

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

— Robert Shea

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for…

— Sextus Julius Frontinus

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

— Nikola Tesla

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

— Albert Einstein

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that…

— Alain Aspect

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be…

— Oren Etzioni

“Money, like most other inventions, had happened to mankind, and men had still to develop  to-day they have still to perfect the…

— H.G. Wells

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions…

— Joanna Garcia

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to…

— Robert Winston

The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial…

— Louis Daguerre

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There…

— Simon Cowell

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my…

— Henry Bessemer

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

— James Russell Lowell

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

— Will Rogers

Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

— Voltaire

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

— Scott Adams

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

— Ethel Merman

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had…

— Eric Hoffer

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

— Benjamin Franklin

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Your dreams! Your ideas! Your inventions! Your vision! Never let anyone tell you You cant!

— Michael_IsHere

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing

— Jonathan Swift

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

— Rich Fulcher

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

— Marshall McLuhan

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least,…

— Charles Babbage

Good intention is better than any invention or innovation, but the best creation of anything in life happens only when they are…

— Anuj Somany

Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

— Filippo Brunelleschi

Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the…

— Elizabeth Berg

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

— Demetri Martin

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions…

— John Galsworthy

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

I would like to find the person who discovered sex and see what he's working on now.

— Anonymous

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and…

— John Moody