Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

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

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

— Nikola Tesla

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