The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or…

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they…

— L. Frank Baum

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they…

— L. Frank Baum

I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would…

— Hannah Kent

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Mind you, as a little boy, I always had other interests from most kids. I was not a boy who rubbed around baseball bats.…

— James Ivory

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that…

— Philip Wylie

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they…

— L. Frank Baum

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission…

— Edward Teller

The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric…

— Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only…

— George Eliot

The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it…

— Bill Gates

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

— Thomas Carlyle

The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business…

— William Stanley Jevons

This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but…

— Thomas Carlyle

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity…

— David Brewster