Important Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

— Ralph H. Baer

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

— Paul Simon

Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea...…

— Richard Rhodes

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was…

— Dean Kamen

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

— Ken Hakuta

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

— Lukas Foss

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks…

— Mark Kennedy

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production…

— Emily Greene Balch

The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial influence which…

— Louis Daguerre

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

— Mark Helprin

The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need.

— Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin