Quotes About Invention

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

It is a little bit science project-y sometimes, and we talk about it that way.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...?

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

We especially need imagination in science.

Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention's father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn't been heard of since.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.

Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!

Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.

Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact

Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.