Inventions Quotes
281 quotes by 229 authors
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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
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
— Lord Byron
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Necessity, the mother of invention.
— George Farquhar
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... 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
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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
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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
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Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
— Winston Churchill
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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