The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who? — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
You think I'm an inventor? "He created a dick-skin condom, He hollowed out a penis and put it on", what the fuck?… — Knocked Up (The Movie Copy Share Image
That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need. — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors. — Donald Sadoway Copy Share Image
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in… — Ruhollah Khomeini 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've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday. — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it… — Neil Jackson Copy Share Image
No one is an inventor in the fashion business. Designers recreate fashion. — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any. — Les Paul Copy Share Image
“He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. — Judith Schaechter Copy Share Image
“The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.” — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears. — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded. [Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]” — Gail Borden Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette Copy Share Image