Quotes About Invention

To procure solutions that will marvel you and the world, just think outside the box.

Doing differently what's already done is old and boring. Do something new, that's yet to be done.

Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.

When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.

An innovative idea is special because only a certain few get to have it

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

Are we gonna see power laces in 2015? To that I say yes!

...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

Envy and malice are indefatigable. Where they have not invention enough to frame new slanders, or the slanders newly framed are found totally inadequate to their purpose, they will call in the feeble aid of old calumnies

This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of high-quality original prints in the Conde Nast archives prove, only Irving Penn and Richard Avedon have since emerged as serious historical rivals.

Encourage learning in the areas of discovery and innovation. This is the time for even more creative thinking and greater focus on innovation.

Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think. (Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run and often in the short one the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

The genius of American business lies in risk-taking, creativity, invention, and ambition.

Simplicity is not a given. It is an achievement, a human invention, a discovery, a beloved belief.

Dicho científico decidió desarrollar un aparato que contara el número de veces que una partícula surge y desaparece en un segundo. Denominó, con gran acierto, al aparato que había inventado: "cámara de burbujas", y se encontró con que una partícula subatómica surge y se desvanece 1022 veces por segundo.

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.

Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!