Inventions Quotes

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Nikola Tesla
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.

Edwin Percy Whipple

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison
- Work
- Accident
- Inventions
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

Joseph Lancaster
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Ernest Dimnet
- Forget
- Genius
- Reach
James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.

Chris Rapley
- Works
- Planet
- Insights
"I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century."

Beano Cook
- Hate
- Hair
- Inventions
I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'

Ben Miller