45 Quotes on Inventions

• Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  Author: Larry Wall

• Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

  Author: Giorgio Vasari

• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

  Author: Robert Shea

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

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

  Author: Will Rogers

• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  Author: Plato

• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

  Author: Joyce Oates

• The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

  Author: Emil Nolde

• The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

  Author: Alva Myrdal

• The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

  Author: John Moody

• It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

  Author: John Mill

• Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  Author: Barbara Mikulski

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

  Author: Ethel Merman

• Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

  Author: Ernst Mayr

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

  Author: Andre Maurois

• But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

  Author: Joseph Lancaster

• All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

  Author: Mark Kennedy

• In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

  Author: Dean Kamen

• To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

  Author: Dean Kamen

• People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

  Author: Lynn Johnston

• I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

  Author: Henrik Ibsen

• What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

  Author: Henrik Ibsen

• In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

  Author: Elias Hicks

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

  Author: Ursula Guin

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

  Author: Arnold Glasow

• It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

  Author: Lukas Foss

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

  Author: Gustave Flaubert

• I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  Author: Thomas Edison

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

  Author: James Dyson

• Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

  Author: Lawrence Durrell

• Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

  Author: Walt Disney

• But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

  Author: Thomas Day

• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  Author: Kenneth Clark

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

  Author: Lord Byron

• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

  Author: Claude Bristol

• We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

  Author: Henry Bessemer

• A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

  Author: Emily Balch

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