Inventions Quotes

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

— Carl Sagan

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Life is composed of different inventions.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

— Voltaire

... inventions and purely human institutions.

— Jean Meslier

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

— Ken Hakuta

It has become difficult to discover truth, easy to invent.

— Tasneem Hameed

Dilemmas, on top of necessities, are the mother of all inventions.

— Myron Sta Ana

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments." -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)”

— Julius Frontinus

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even…

— Henry Ford

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the…

— Benjamin Franklin

Mostly all famous inventions start off as an accidents. For instance, my invention of running over cats.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.”

— William J Federer

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

— Bertrand Russell

There have been three great inventions in the history of mankind; Fire, the wheel and Playboy.

— Hugh Hefner

... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear…

— Reginald Fessenden

“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements,…

— Israelmore Ayivor

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence,…

— Mark Kennedy

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“Ordinary-size people, they don't know: their lives have been rehearsed and rehearsed by every single person who ever lived before them, inventions…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“He invented ordinary things, and I stress, ordinary. Not brilliant, just ordinary, and that's exactly what humanity needs. Brilliant inventions might be…

— Etgar Keret

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Alain Aspect

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently…

— John Ambrose Fleming

This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey…

— Lord Byron

The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating…

— George Washington

“Did you ever think about the creation of the flame-thrower? Someone, somewhere, at some time must have been sitting on his porch,…

— John Larson

“One of the greatest inventions of the 20th century -- indeed, one of the landmark inventions in the history of the human…

— Thomas Sowell

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I know not what discoveries, what inventions, what thoughts may leap from the brain of the world. I know not what garments…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable,…

— Francis Bacon

“Thomas Edison was no an inventor but a very evil wealthy man with connections to the most wealthy Americans. He killed animals…

— James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“Prototypes of inventions that use novel combinations of resonance, magnetism, states of matter, certain geometries or inward swirling motion to unlock the…

— Jeane Manning

“Klaus leaned out the window and began to pour the mixture of blackstrap molasses, wild clover honey, corn syrup, aged balsamic vinegar,…

— Lemony Snicket

“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“[...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions become widely accessible, they cease to be…

— Umberto Eco

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

— James Dyson

Atom Bomb: The invention to end all other inventions.

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Leonardo da Vinci