Top 413 Inventions Quotes & Sayings

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

... inventions and purely human institutions.

Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

There are maybe three inventions I have that I rank as my top inventions that I'm most proud of. The robot I built in high school, the memory-protected circuitry for the Galileo and the Super Soaker.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

Truly new inventions take time to play out.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.

There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

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

In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

Life is composed of different inventions.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

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

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on his fellowmen for which he could not charge them. Insofar as the same kind of ability is required for the one kind of invention as for the other, the existence of patents tends to divert activity to patentable inventions.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

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