Cds Quote by Robert Winston

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

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was…

— Dean Kamen

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of…

— Dick Rutan

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

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Our inventions won't be pretty toys, or show up in movies, which distract our attention from serious things, they are but improved but means…

— Henry Thoreau

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

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

— Ralph H. Baer

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into…

— Edwin Land

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in…

— Simone Weil

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

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

— Henry David Thoreau