Compass Quote by Jonathan Swift

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing

— Jonathan Swift

There have been three great inventions in the history of mankind; Fire, the wheel and Playboy.

— Hugh Hefner

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

— Ralph H. Baer

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

— Will Rogers

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Kennedy

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Every invention was made out of necessity.

— Anonymous

“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

“They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. It is just as well to remember that…

— James Baldwin

“Our central thesis is that some inventions are more important than others, and that the revolutionary century after the Civil War was made possible…

— Robert J. Gordon