A Quote by Francois Jacob

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

Francois Jacob

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Francois Jacob
French - Scientist
Born: June 17, 1920

That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.

Lonnie Johnson

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

Leroy Chiao

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

Erica Jong

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

Charles Kettering

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

Filippo Brunelleschi

Evolution is a tinkerer.

Francois Jacob

As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you create problems for yourself and you solve them and you create things that weren't there before. That's awfully simplified, but that's how it is.

Michael C. McMillen

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Oscar Wilde

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Oscar Wilde

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

Nick Park

I hear what they're saying. I ask my English tutor, 'What is this word 'tinkerer?''

Claudio Ranieri

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

Aaron Patzer

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