Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work…

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect…

— Giorgio Vasari

“people of “genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect…

— Adam M. Grant

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of…

— Leonardo da Vinci

We should actively be thinking about what our inventions would look like if exploited by someone with a less of a moral compass and…

— Hannah Fry

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

— Alain Aspect

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

— Voltaire

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes.…

— Thomas A. Edison

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was…

— Dean Kamen

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

— Alva Myrdal

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

— Diane Arbus

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

— Benjamin Franklin