Based Quote by Ralph H. Baer

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

— Lukas Foss

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

— Voltaire

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

— Gottfried Leibniz

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

— Ken Hakuta

Mostly all famous inventions start off as an accidents. For instance, my invention of running over cats.

— Nikhil Saluja

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable…

— Brian Eno

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday…

— Elizabeth Charles

Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea...…

— Richard Rhodes

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

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

— Jared Diamond

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