Inventions And Inventors Quotes

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.