An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories,… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors,… — Lin Yutang 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
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their… — Pamela McCorduck Copy Share Image
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an… — Nguyen Quyen Copy Share Image
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image