The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla:… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James… — David Antin Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas ibn Firnas Copy Share Image
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I'm never proud of myself. No. People are always proud of me, but I think people can always be greater than me.… — Toots Hibbert Copy Share Image
That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same.… — Sam Lamott Copy Share Image
the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image