Inventor Quotes

199 Inventor quotes by 157 unique authors

Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor,… — Thomas Steven Molnar
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous… — Kit Williams
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the… — Nikola Tesla
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but… — Pope Innocent I
Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor. — Francois Jacob
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach… — Alberto Manguel
The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular… — George Henry Lewes
What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs,… — Ludwig von Mises
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers. — John Thomas Sladek
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the… — Mark Twain
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug… — Erica Jong
Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ...… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one… — Jacob Bronowski
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. — Michael Nyman
I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and… — Nguyen Quyen
An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of… — Nikola Tesla
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette

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