Inventors Quotes
70 quotes by 63 authors
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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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
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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
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The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
— Donald Sadoway
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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
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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
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Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors…
— James Madison
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Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who…
— Daniel H. Pink
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Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And…
— Steve Wozniak
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That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in…
— Nikola Tesla
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The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in…
— Paul Feyerabend
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Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and…
— Jean Piaget
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All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.
— Trevor Baylis
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The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
— Trevor Baylis
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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
— Harry Seidler
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There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ...…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.
— Robert Dilts
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I remember mother saying  :   Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
— Muriel Rukeyser
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