Inventions Quotes

281 Inventions quotes by 226 unique authors

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of… — Woodrow Wilson
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. — Alva Myrdal
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come… — Larry Page
The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own,… — Emil Nolde
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I… — Antonin Dvorak
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man;… — William Henry Hudson
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best — Thomas A. Edison
My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and… — Thomas A. Edison
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen… — Nikola Tesla
At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no… — Rick Springfield
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it… — Ralph Linton
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie
Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and… — Barbara Mikulski
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed… — Rube Goldberg
Do not debate! is one of my inventions. — Deng Xiaoping
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions — Dean Kamen
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,… — Unknown Author
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain.… — Anton Szandor LaVey
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour… — Alfred Marshall
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they… — C.S. Lewis
All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later… — Scott Belsky
Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but… — Lynda Resnick

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