Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Your dreams! Your ideas! Your inventions! Your vision! Never let anyone tell you You cant! — Michael_IsHere 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
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
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing — Jonathan Swift 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
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
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“I realize that most inventions fail not because the R&D department can’t get them to work, but because the timing is wrong… — Kurzweil Copy Share Image
My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem,… — Shai Agassi Copy Share Image
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
In a certain sense we can be proud to have introduced this hairstyle to Europe. 'Plica polonica' should be added to the… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Of 1,091 inventions patented in Canada, only 75 of them ever made it to market—less than 1 percent. Of these, 45 lost… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial… — David Josiah Brewer 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
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
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions — Ethel Merman 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
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit'… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
In life, there are really complex, difficult jobs, and some are more complicated and difficult than others. But when you look around… — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that… — Dean Kamen 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
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
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 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
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial… — Louis Daguerre 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'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions… — Joanna Garcia Copy Share Image
American Inventor', a show I came up with launched in 2006. It's all of America's greatest and wackiest inventions rolled into one… — Peter Jones Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Our inventions won't be pretty toys, or show up in movies, which distract our attention from serious things, they are but improved… — Henry Thoreau Copy Share Image
