The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. — Nick Park Copy Share Image
The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need. — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions” — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions:… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Things That Actually Happen Are Often More Surprising Than Stories That Are Invented... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Mind can devise even the most impossible device, invent even the most impossible invention, and create even the most impossible creation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. — Plato Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Money, like most other inventions, had happened to mankind, and men had still to develop to-day they have still to perfect the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence,… — Mark Kennedy Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There are maybe three inventions I have that I rank as my top inventions that I'm most proud of. The robot I… — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products, but new ways to give more and more people access to these inventions and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it's deliberately and maliciously factored… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
