In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Good intention is better than any invention or innovation, but the best creation of anything in life happens only when they are… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and… — John Moody Copy Share Image
I would like to find the person who discovered sex and see what he's working on now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“As to the inventions of printing and of paper, we generally consider these in the wrong oredr, attributing too much importnace to… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation… — Robert Henry Thurston Copy Share Image
Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy… — Simone Giertz Copy Share Image
I used to like to come up with inventions because I hated working so much when I had my day job. I… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
“The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,” the inventor said. “The… — Mark Jackman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Our inventions have long been ahead of us in terms of efficiency and sanity, productivity and predictability. Oh, how we’ve wished we… — Amy Leach Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
“But what can be learned from trivia? A history of inventions reveals we made the gun silencer (1908) before air conditioning (1911),… — Dominic Smith Copy Share Image
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it. — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image