Quotes

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

--Auguste Rodin

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

-- Arthur Koestler

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

--Kingman Brewster

Crank a man with a new idea until it succeeds.

--Mark Twain

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

--Albert Einstein

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

--Linus Pauling

Necessity is the mother of invention.

--Latin Proverb

Invention is the mother of necessity.

--Thorstein Veblen

Invention breeds invention.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a wonderful place.  It is lovely.

--Dr. Strong

Invention is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

--Charles F. Kettering

Ideas do not always have to be useful. Ideas can be inventions or they can solve problems or they can help people or they can simply be fun. The mind is probably the least used source of enjoyment.

--Edward de Bono

Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.

--Woodrow Wilson

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

--Thomas Alva Edison

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.

--Anonymous

The only person who likes change is a wet baby!

--Roger von Oech

Our lives are often changed by the vision and persistence of individuals willing to pursue new ideas.

---P. Ranganath Nayak and John Ketteringham

If invention can be defined and codified, is it invention any longer?

--David N. Perkins

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

--Jonathan Swift

Our heads are round so that our thinking can change directions.

--Francis Picabia

The reasonable person adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

--George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention, which are, in my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves.

--Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz

If it hadn't been for Edison, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

--Anonymous

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

--Jonathan Swift

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

--Henry George

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

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

--Eden Phillpotts

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

--Alexander Graham Bell

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -gunpowder and romantic love.

--André Maurois

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

--Christopher Morley

Inventor: a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it is civilization.

--Ambrose Bierce

Hell Heaven is paved with good intentions inventions.

--Anonymous

The most powerful forces that change the way we live are the applied sparks of insight that we call invention.

--Dr. Robert Jarvik