Approach Quote by Charles R. Morris

n truth, we don't know a whole lot of what Simeon North did. He did manage to match John Hall's ability to make interchangeable…

— Charles R. Morris

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without…

— Bill N. Lacy

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the…

— Nikola Tesla

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

— Ernest Dimnet

“The 1850s proved to be the decade of the most prolific patent litigation in America’s history. Lincoln himself was involved, as well as his…

— Darin Gibby

Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock…

— Charles R. Morris

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

— Scott Adams

His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind…

— Nikola Tesla

Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has…

— Viet D. Dinh

Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

— James Gleick

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science…

— Steve Jobs

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

— Arthur Brisbane