Advancement Quote by James Bryant Conant

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

“The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.”

— Lord Kelvin

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission…

— Edward Teller

“No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press,”

— Kurt Andersen

Some of the most important discoveries that scientists have made were not what they were seeking at the time.

— Jamie Hyneman

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of…

— Vaclav Smil

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity…

— David Brewster

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic…

— James Buchan

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in…

— Steven Johnson

“The emergence of the steam engine and its entire subsequent development was driven by market needs. The original need was to pump water out…

— Edward A. Hudson

“Consider this!” Edmond declared. “It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took…

— Dan Brown

“Perhaps science does not develop by the accumulation of individual discoveries and inventions”

— Thomas S. Kuhn