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Giordano Bruno
It is not true, it is a happy invention. [It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]
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Henry S. Leigh
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old regime. And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page, I'd give--though it might seem bold-- A hundred years of the Golden Age For a year of the Age of Gold.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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.
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Isaac D'Israeli
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.
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Jonathan Swift
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
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Jonathan Swift
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well; But when did woman ever yet invent?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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Thomas Fuller
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.
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Thomas Fuller
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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William Shakespeare
She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand.
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