Quotes About Invention

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

No-one really thought of fission before its discovery.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.