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Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical…

— Paul Flory

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

— Mark Twain

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.

— Mark Twain

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

— Thomas A. Edison

None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes.…

— Thomas A. Edison

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

— Pliny the Elder

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved…

— Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

— Plato

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

— Ralph H. Baer

Invention breeds invention.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Will Rogers

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky