Invention Quotes · Page 27

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

— Igor Stravinsky

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

— Joseph Jastrow

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

— Ludwig von Mises

“Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.”

— Tibullus

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

— Aristotle

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

— Tim O'Reilly

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.

— Peter Drucker

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

— Jonathan Swift

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according…

— James Carroll

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that…

— Thomas Paine

The invention of council housing originally offered the poor a way of knowing they were valuable. You had security of tenure.

— Michael Rosen

“Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want…

— Zack W. Van

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to…

— George Bernard Shaw

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

— Henry Tizard

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the…

— Nikola Tesla

The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial…

— Louis Daguerre

Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an…

— Henry David Thoreau

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention…

— Joseph Addison

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to…

— Robert Winston

They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to…

— Dan Gutman

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's…

— Tom Robbins

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

— Nathan Myhrvold

“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Convention loves invention, but dares not take it home.”

— Amy Lapwing

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

— Philippe Kahn

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

— George Takei

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

— George Bernard Shaw

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

— John Berger

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

— Elsa Maxwell

“Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.”

— Victor Hugo

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

— Charles Kettering

You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.

— Jeff Foxworthy

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

— James Naismith

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

— Townsend Harris

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

— Thomas Jefferson