Invention Quotes

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi...

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invent...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, t...

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestio...

The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new th...

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which ...

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge...

... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order o...

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade tha...

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important produ...

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art...

Architecture is invention.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to hi...

You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I...

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel...

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is les...

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

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, no...

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer,the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You...

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums...

Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, rise...

That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why,...

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on wh...

During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own ...

Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to se

Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to ...

Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it...

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349.Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642,...

Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who...

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but t...

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things with...

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupt...