Inventor Quotes

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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. — Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. — Thomas Carlyle
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. — Johnny Carson
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. — Julian Casablancas
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. — John F. Kennedy
We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours. — Ayah Bdeir
The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors. — Donald Sadoway
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. — Charles Kettering
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody.… — Anthony de Mello
Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet… — Malcolm Gladwell
Man is the inventor of stupidity. — Remy de Gourmont
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the… — Reginald Fessenden
The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images… — Reginald Fessenden
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was… — Aristotle
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… — Ernst Mach
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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