Determined Quote by John Muir

“Every machine has had the same history – a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys, of partial…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural…

— Robert B. Laughlin

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

— Coco Chanel

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

— Coco Chanel

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America,…

— Oscar Wilde

You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that…

— Santiago Calatrava

“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

Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be,…

— Eric Hoffer

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“The great inventions would have not become a reality if their inventors listened to criticism or paid attention to people who tried to hold…

— JOHN TASKINSOY

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

— Philip Emeagwali

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

— Thomas Heatherwick