Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
American Inventor', a show I came up with launched in 2006. It's all of America's greatest and wackiest inventions rolled into one… — Peter Jones Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“Every day some scientist discovered a new species of frog or waterlily, and that, too, seemed to confirm some divine showman, some… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an… — Nguyen Quyen Copy Share Image
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their… — Pamela McCorduck Copy Share Image
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first,… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It isn’t easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
