Invention Quotes

At this point the march of invention brought a new factor upon the scene. Iron was dug and forged. Men armed with iron entered Britain from the Continent and killed the men of bronze. At this point we can plainly recognise across the vanished millenniums a fellow-being. A biped capable of slaying another with iron is evidently to modern eyes a man and a brother.

There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

All our inventions and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.

Writing ... is the great invention of the world.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

I would like to ask you, what would you like to be remembered for? You should write it down. It could be an important contribution, whether it is an invention, an innovation or a change that you bring about in society that the nation will remember you for.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Negative results are just what I want. They're just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don't.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

I start where the last man left off.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

I try not to invent things that people don't need.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!

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

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.