Inventions Quotes
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Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
Albert Einstein -
Most inventions are based on some prior history.
Ralph Baer
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It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
Albert Einstein -
Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
Filippo Brunelleschi -
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.
Edwin Armstrong -
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.
Galileo Galilei -
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
Alain Aspect
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The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
Jonathan Swift -
But it is always a challenge to commercialize those inventions.
Craig Mundie -
Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions.
Alexander Graham Bell -
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best.
Thomas A. Edison
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron -
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 -
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.
Thomas A. Edison -
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman -
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.
Nikola Tesla
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Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.
Scott Adams -
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
Bill Gates -
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.
John 5 LOSER -
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Nikola Tesla