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  • Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

    "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.
  • As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you create problems for yourself and you solve them and you create things that weren't there before. That's awfully simplified, but that's how it is.

    Kids   Artist   Problem  
    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

    Science   Vision   Facts  
    George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
  • There is no substitute for hard work.

  • An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

  • I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in Dadaistic activities. It was clear, luminous, simple without being banal, precise without being narrow; it was a style adapted to the expression of thought as well as of emotion. I connected this style with the Dadaistic exercises themselves

    War   Exercise   Simple  
    Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.265, Verso
  • If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  • 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.

    Math   Scientist   Used  
  • Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.

  • Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

    "The Rhythm of Life : Living Every Day with Passion and Purpose" by Matthew Kelly, (p. 80), 2004.
  • We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation
  • At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

    Art   Science   Discovery  
    Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.442, Cosimo, Inc.
  • If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

    Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House
  • I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

  • A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

  • Man is the inventor of stupidity.

    Funny   Stupid   Men  
  • the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

    Rosary   Plowing   Firsts  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1313, Library of Alexandria
  • Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.

    Pamela McCorduck (1985). “The Universal Machine: Confessions of a Technological Optimist”, New York : McGraw-Hill
  • Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

    John Milton, Samuel Johnson, John Evans (1799). “Milton's Paradise Lost: With the Life of the Author ; to which is Prefixed the Celebrated Critique by Sam Johnson LLD.”, p.177
  • Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

    Jobs   World   Fingertips  
    "Steve Jobs Dies: Disney Releases Statement, His Entertainment Legacy Remembered" By Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.
  • In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

    Time   Lying   Philosophy  
  • Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  • An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

    Life   Change   Work  
  • For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.

    Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.45, Penguin
  • It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

    Art   Men   Medicine  
    Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”
  • It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.

    Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.31, Routledge
  • Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.407, Simon and Schuster
  • With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

    Real   Science   Men  
    Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers
  • Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

    Horace Mann (1957). “The Republic and the School: The Education of Free Men”
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