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Tag Name "Inventions" (151)

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Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.
Joseph Jastrow
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
Thomas A. Edison
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My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Thomas A. Edison
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Thomas More
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[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
Thomas Paine
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
Vernor Vinge
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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
Voltaire
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers
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We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!
will.i.am
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
William O. Douglas
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Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.
Scott Adams
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Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
Winston Churchill
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Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
Soong May-ling
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People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.
Stephen Jay Gould
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The white race is the cancer of human history it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
Susan Sontag
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Nikola Tesla
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I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.
Fred Rogers
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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
Alva Myrdal
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It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions, discoveries, insight, art. We are citizens, as Socrates would have said, & we have it available as our own.
Paul Goodman
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
Jules Verne
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