Innovation Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like…

— John Desmond Bernal

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the…

— E. F. Schumacher

“British mechanics and engineers were in demand around the world.”

— Thomas Sowell

“It is too easy to think that ‘science’ is what happens now, that modernity and scientific thought are inseparable. Yet as Laura Snyder so…

— Judith Flanders

“Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“Necessity was the master of invention”

— C.J. Roberts

Contentment: The smother of invention.

— Ethel Mumford

“Patent lawyers had only lately ascended to the aristocracy of the American bar. Trained not just as lawyers but as scientists or engineers, and…

— Paul Goldstein

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

— Patricia Piccinini