Quotes about inventions

With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything.

If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Our inventions have long been ahead of us in terms of efficiency and sanity, productivity and predictability. Oh, how we’ve wished we could be manmade, too. What has been keeping us back, keeping us messy? The animal impediment, within and without. Eliminating these impediments, we will surely be catching up with our machines, resembling them more and more impeccably.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

What a life we live. Full of questions, adventures, stories, mistakes, good, quests, bad, miracles, lessons, people, blessings, journeys, inventions, music, animals, history, cultures, religions, prophecies, planets, stars, careers, movies, plants, hate, love, and so much more.

The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,' the inventor said. 'The hamster generates heat by running on the wheel. If you get a big enough hamster, it will keep your whole face warm.

The hamster-powered hat is the same as any other hat. It keeps your head warm and looks smart,” the inventor said. “The hamster generates heat by running on the wheel. If you get a big enough hamster, it will keep your whole face warm.

An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a dissatisfaction that keeps one a step away from sliding into mediocrity.

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable s

... the invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe. This was one of the great inventions in this history of mankind -- not in a class with fire and the wheel, but comparable to movable type in its revolutionary implications for cultural values, technological change, social and political organization, and personality.

If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Patents are not forever, but inventions are

Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

It is clear looking at statistics of inventions, discoveries and fortune 500 companies, that it is not the believers that are managing the affairs of the earth. What a tragedy!!!

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!

So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they’d work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don’t expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it

The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc.

Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.

Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught