Quotes About Invention

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

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.

Our garage was basically science fair central.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.