Quotes About Ingenuity

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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!