I do not think you can name many great inventions that…

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

This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories,…

— George B. Cortelyou

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

— Thomas A. Edison

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce…

— Swami Vivekananda

The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that…

— B. F. Skinner

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

— Warren Buffett

There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning,…

— Ralph W. Gerard

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They…

— Edwin Land

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

— Agatha Christie

“Great people live a simple life, Great Inventions have simple ideas Great teachers make matters simple. Great Students simply understand in-spite of Teachers The…

— T.V. Rao

Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor…

— Robert Henry Thurston

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

— Will Rogers

Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his…

— John Pfahl

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

— Charles Babbage

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

— Caryl Rivers