My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius:… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
The chicken wing and the cross-face were in the business but I was the first one to clasp my hands when I… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as… — Rudolf Diesel Copy Share Image
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it… — Ray Kurzweil 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 asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your… — Philo Farnsworth Copy Share Image
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators. — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Your nightmare existence in a trunk is over... At long last you will be recognized as the inventor of photography. This picture… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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