"Tell me it's never been done. Because the……" — Dean Kamen
"Tell me it's never been done. Because the only real laws in this world-the only things we really know-are the two postulates of relativity, the three laws of Newton, the four laws of thermodynamics, and Maxwell's equation-no, scratch that, the only things we really know are Maxwell's equations, the three laws of Newton, the two postulates of relativity, and the periodic table. That's all we know that's true. All the rest are man's laws"
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41 Quotes by Dean Kamen
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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the…
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I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
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I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.
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We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our…
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Segway will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy.
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I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be…
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My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
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It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.
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Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).
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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million…
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