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Quotes About Invention

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
~ Theophile Gautier
However inventive humans turn out to be, they will never invent their way around the laws of thermodynamics. That fundamental truth is denied by standard infinite-growth theory, which blithely projects productivity gains from technological innovation indefinitely into the future.
~ The Worldwatch Institute
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
~ Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
Love is a discovery, God is an invention.
~ Thiruman Archunan
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
~ Thomas A. Edison
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill
~ Thomas Alva Edison
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
Results Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
~ Thomas Carlyle
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
~ Vijay Kumar
What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
~ Richard Thompson
Innovation is a necessity.
~ Chanda Kochhar
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
~ Bill Watterson
My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.
~ Pranav Mistry
When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.
~ Marissa Mayer
Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.
~ Jonathan Ive