Quotes on Inventions

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

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

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Author: Lawrence Durrell

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

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

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

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

Author: Bertrand Russell