Quotes About Invention

Clara lived in a universe of her own invention, protected from life's inclement weather, where the prosaic truth of material objects mingled with the tumultuous reality of dreams and the laws of physics and logic did not always apply.

La caridad, igual que su socialismo, es un invento de los débiles para doblegar y utilizar a los fuertes.

La memoria è invenzione. Selezioniamo il materiale più brillante e quello più buio, ignorando ciò che è fonte di vergogna, e così tessiamo il grande arazzo della nostra vita. Per mezzo della fotografia e della parola scritta cerco disperatamente di sconfiggere la fuggevolezza della mia vita, di catturare gli attimi prima che svaniscano, di rischiarare la confusione del mio passato.

El calendario es un invento humano; el tiempo a nivel spiritual no existe...

If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.

The concept of zero is attributed to the Hindus. The Hindus were also the first to use zero in the way it is used today.

Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the Chinese, and the Maya did, among others. Once invented, science proved so useful that it spread like mold on a petri dish.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

What a blessed thing it is that nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her audiors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

There is only one answer to destruc-tiveness and that is creativity.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

Great ideas are not charitable.

Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

Prior to inventing the Geyser Tube toy, dropping a stack of Mentos into a bottle of soda was not always an easy task. The Geyser Tube makes it easy to get a perfect launch every time at heights of 30 feet or more. Tell me... who doesn't like to see soda shooting 30 feet into the air, all in the name of science?