Inventions Quotes

281 Inventions quotes by 226 unique authors

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of… — Keith Olbermann
I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible… — Nick Park
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.… — George Gilder
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. — Claude M. Bristol
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its… — Vernor Vinge
The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall.… — Ralph Washington Sockman
All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated,… — John Harvey Kellogg
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,… — Henry David Thoreau
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly. — Benjamin Franklin
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. — John Major
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in… — Soong May-ling
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey Davy's lantern, by… — Lord Byron
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard
I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century. — Beano Cook
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Number, the most excellent of all inventions. — Aeschylus
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in… — Arnold J. Toynbee
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed… — H. L. Mencken
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if… — Malcolm Gladwell
Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting of… — Elihu Thomson
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. — James Russell Lowell

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