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Inventions Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
- Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never…
- Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
- In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
- Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and…
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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… — George Washington
- Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation… — Unknown Author
- Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier
- As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions,… — 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… — Clifford Stoll
- We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had… — 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… — Reginald Fessenden