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Inventions Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,…
- The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
- In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
- The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and…
- The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
- 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,…
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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