Inventions Quotes

281 Inventions quotes by 226 unique authors

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes… — James D. Watson
I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other… — William Shatner
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the… — Alain Aspect
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. — Nick Park
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images… — Orhan Pamuk
Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken… — David Josiah Brewer
For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need. — Chris Toumazou
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. — Ursula K. Le Guin
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. — Arnold H. Glasow
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. — Plato
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. — John Moody
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. — Robert Shea
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their… — Thomas Day
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these… — Ernst Mayr
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can… — Joshua Reynolds
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and… — Emily Greene Balch
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. — Lynn Johnston
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. — Kenneth Clarke
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using… — Henrik Ibsen
Now that I am ninety-five years old, looking back over the years, I have seen many changes taking place, so many inventions have been made.… — Grandma Moses
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. — Bible
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come… — Lawrence Clark Powell
The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall.… — Ralph W. Sockman
Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates
It has become difficult to discover truth, easy to invent. — Tasneem Hameed

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