Accurate Quote by John Harvey Kellogg

“Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its…

— Dava Sobel

“Suppose, Paley wrote, a man walking across a heath happens upon a watch lying on the ground. He picks up the instrument and opens…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the…

— Lord Kelvin

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific…

— Dan Simmons

“From Galileo’s discovery of the principle of the pendulum, a totally new concept of the design of timepieces evolved. But what proved even more…

— William Bixby

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth…

— Eric Hoffer

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

— Willa Cather

When it comes to watches, it's ironic that you can spend thousands on an exquisitely made mechanical watch, and yet it will be less…

— James May

All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an…

— Victor Papanek