Dreams Quote by George Henry Lewes

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or…

— William Kingdon Clifford

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new…

— Ayn Rand

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

— Trevor Baylis

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with…

— James Dyson

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

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had…

— Mark Twain

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

— Bertrand Piccard

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…

— Jacob Bronowski

These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the…

— Alain de Botton

I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

— Jason Newsted

I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and…

— Steve Wozniak