The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as… — Rudolf Diesel Copy Share Image
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Your nightmare existence in a trunk is over... At long last you will be recognized as the inventor of photography. This picture… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators. — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two… — Thomas Steven Molnar Copy Share Image
Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Math is discovered. To be invented requires an inventor, but math exists outside of humanity. But ultimately, the laws of the universe… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
The chicken wing and the cross-face were in the business but I was the first one to clasp my hands when I… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
