Depends Quote by William Blake

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

— Joseph Jastrow

Invention breeds invention.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

— John Ray

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

— Peter Drucker

Invention is the mother of necessities.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

Invention is totally independent of the will.

— Benjamin Haydon

Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor…

— Robert Henry Thurston

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

— Igor Stravinsky

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

— Nikhil Saluja

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's…

— Dean Kamen