Quotes About Ingenuity

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Where oil is first found is in the minds of men

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.

It wasn't only the Lorites who said that is not a new result. People re-invented the wheel all the time. There was nothing shameful in it. If the rest of us oohed and aahed and said, "Gosh, a wheel, no one's ever thought of that before," just to make that person feel good, nothing would ever get done.

His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning rod for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed.

We're a sleepy nation right now. I want us to be a nation of innovation.

if everything you have learned is what everyone else knows, no one will ever beat a path to your door.