Invention Quotes

Most popular invention quotes

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel—but who? - Isaac Asimov quote.
The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel—but who?
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. - John Muir quote.
The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
Want is the mistress of invention.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Invention breeds invention. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Invention breeds invention.
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. - Charles F. Kettering quote.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Invention is the mother of necessity.

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Necessity is the mother of invention. - Plato quote.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization. - Thomas Edison quote.
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. - Carolyn Wells quote.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. - Mark Twain quote.
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. - Gloria Steinem quote.
I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

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A bad memory is the mother of invention. - Gerald Brenan quote.
A bad memory is the mother of invention.
Want, the Mistress of Invention, still tempts me on.
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention. - Plato quote.
The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. - Alfred North Whitehead quote.
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
I've always believed that our inventions mirror our secret wishes. - Lawrence Durrell quote.
I've always believed that our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy. - Ellen Glasgow quote.
There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

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Everything that can be invented has been invented.

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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. - Jonathan Swift quote.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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