Quotes About Invention

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Man is, above all, he who creates.

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.

If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.

I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!

But man invents nothing God did not create first.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.