Quotes About Invention

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

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

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

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

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

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

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.

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

THE PREMISE OF THIS BOOK CAME TO ME CIRCA 2006

I'm surprised at you! If it will take ten years to make the machine with available technology, and only five years to make it with a new technology, and it will only take two years to invent the new technology, then you can do it in seven years by inventing the new technology first!

A gazebo on top of a welding rig" was how Yul might have described it, if only he had been here.

Bulgarian professor named John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, who were building a machine that was intended to automate the solution of some especially tedious differential equations.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a yo-yo," Enoch said.

The Comanches were originally Shoshones who had come down out of the north speaking a language that, of course, had no word for "pig." When they had encountered this alien species in what was now Texas, they'd had to invent a new term for them. The term was muubi pooro. Different bands of Comanches pronounced it in slightly different ways. The first of those words meant "nose" and the second meant something like a "tool" or a "weapon.