Inventions Quotes

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. — John Adams
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the… — George Washington
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions,… — Robert Henry Thurston
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced… — Jean Meslier
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far… — H. L. Mencken
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.… — Clifford Stoll
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as… — Eric Hoffer
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson
Necessity, the mother of invention. — George Farquhar
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition… — Reginald Fessenden
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was… — Aristotle
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions. — Winston Churchill
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it… — Herbert York
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise… — Hans Arp

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