Being successful Quote by Peter Farb

You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination.

— Elif Batuman

“It can be a relief to know that, in coming up with fresh ideas, we don’t have to invent from scratch; we can draw…

— Warren Berger

Invention breeds invention.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

— Henri Poincare

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

— Whitney M. Young

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of…

— Vaclav Smil

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are…

— Jane Addams

To invent is to discern, to choose.

— Henri Poincare

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market,…

— Reginald Fessenden

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

— Seth Godin

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

— John Henry Holland

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon