“ An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
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“ We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
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“ Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. ”
- Andre Maurois- Copy
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“ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ”
- Thomas Alva Edison- Copy
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“ All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. ”
- Sir Joshua Reynolds- Copy
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“ Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. ”
- Henry George- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. ”
- Bertolt Brecht- Copy
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“ A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do. ”
- Michael Bloomberg- Copy
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