Innovation Quote by G. Harry Stine Download Open image “Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.” — G. Harry Stine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innovation Invention Jobs Lasers Looking for a job
It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before… — Charles H. Townes Copy Share Image
Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode. — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
“A Solution Waiting for a Problem Engineers tend to develop tools for the pleasure of developing tools, not to induce nature to yield its… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I still try to make different types of lasers that other people don't have. — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream… — Al Ries Copy Share Image
What the ultrafast laser does is that because it doesn't have to just cut from the surface, it's only at the intense focal point… — Donna Strickland Copy Share Image
“I do wonder what being illuminated by scattered high powered industrial LASER light does to the human.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“A 1-watt laser is an extremely dangerous thing. It’s not just powerful enough to blind you—it’s capable of burning skin and setting things on… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that. — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions. — Ann Makosinski Copy Share Image
“Some innovations just don’t attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in… — Martin J. Rees Copy Share Image
