| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. |
| Charles H Duell | Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Jonathan Swift | Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. |
| Mrs Susannah Centlivre | Want, the mistress of invention. |
| 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?" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| Thomas Fuller | Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure. |
| Thomas Fuller | A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. |
| 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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