Inventor Quotes

“Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...

He disbelieved the ancient myths and miracles taught by established creeds. But the attacks on those creeds - or on persons devoted to them - have served to darken his memory, casting a shadow across the closing years of his life.

When Theodore Roosevelt termed Tom Paine a 'dirty little atheist' he surely spoke from lack of understanding. It was a stricture, an inaccurate charge of the sort that has dimmed the greatness of this eminent American. But the true measure of his stature will yet be appreciated. The torch which he handed on will not be extinguished. If Paine had ceased his writings with 'The Rights of Man' he would have been hailed today as one of the two or three outstanding figures of the Revolution. But 'The Age of Reason' cost him glory at the hands of his countrymen - a greater loss to them than to Tom Paine.

I was always interested in Paine the inventor. He conceived and designed the iron bridge and the hollow candle; the principle of the modern central draught burner. The man had a sort of universal genius. He was interested in a diversity of things; but his special creed, his first thought, was liberty.

Traducers have said that he spent his last days drinking in pothouses. They have pictured him as a wicked old man coming to a sorry end. But I am persuaded that Paine must have looked with magnanimity and sorrow on the attacks of his countrymen. That those attacks have continued down to our day, with scarcely any abatement, is an indication of how strong prejudice, when once aroused, may become. It has been a custom in some quarters to hold up Paine as an example of everything bad.

The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty - who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause - can be permanently obscured by such attacks. Tom Paine should be read by his countrymen. I commend his fame to their hands.

{The Philosophy of Paine, June 7, 1925}”
― Thomas A. Edison, Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison

“To become an artist you have to be curious.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin.
Art is this: art is the solution of a problem which cannot be expressed explicitly until it is solved.”
― Piet Hein, Grooks 1

“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.”
― Elon Musk

“Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.”
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“My Belle. I'm so proud of you. Look at what you created here."
Belle blushed. "I didn't create it, Papa. It's Hugo's shop."
"But you found the missing pieces," her father said. "And that's the mark of a dreamer and a doer. Otherwise known as an inventor.”
― Random House Disney, Belle's Discovery

“ 'Reedlike, that’s what Hedy Kiesler is, sweet and reedlike, and when she wants to talk to you she doesn’t lean over your shoulder and arch herself out behind like a debutante....She leans back from you [and] takes a good look in your eyes and a firm grip on your name before she will allow herself to say a word.' ”
― Richard Rhodes, Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

“The inventive step requirement makes a lawyer out of an inventor”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“The Garden

If no one loves her
Please, love you
Even if she’s a wreckage
Or lost, in a predetermined path
Or broken, by a perfect love
Or loved, by your sacrificial loneliness
Please, build her
Even when you have no stone
Or judge her abysmal tombstone
Or her nothingness collapses your passion
Water her azaleas
Out of frozen concrete
From sublime bottles
No one full, ever knew how to fill.

Jenim Dibie”
― Jenim Dibie

“I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don't want to change!”
― August Dvorak

“Engineering is a profession that can do the job of almost all other professions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The revolutionary lone inventor was a fantasy of popular culture – and the Minister”
― Ian McEwan, Solar

“Daedalus took comfort in the baby Icarus, and I loved to see him walking about with the infant dandled in his arms, showing the oblivious child the flowers and the birds and the many wonders of the palace.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“You cannot make one invent at gun point. Forget the movies, and think about pampering inventors, not threatening them”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Do not teach me; I am not a user; I am an inventor, learn from me.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“In the world Market
If a nation wants to be a superpower or wants to lead the world
a nation needs to be an Inventor, Creator, and Producer.
Buyer one is only has buying power, which is very much temporary!!!”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“One invents; whereas, another earns and benefits from that, not the inventor.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Great inventors today or killed off long before we ever hear about them and their inventions stolen and developed by the wealthy as original ideas. This is why America has not produced one great inventor in the last 100 years and will never produce another great inventor.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.”
― Stephanie Kwolek, Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

“Do not allow your mind to be imprisoned by majority thinking. Remember that the limits of science are not the limits of imagination.”
― Patricia Bath, Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids

“Inventions are Personal But An Idea is Always Universal.”
― Pradip Bendkule

“[Dream that lead to real-life invention]

A man was in a jungle surrounded by saages. They were coming menacingly close to him, their spears rising, then descending. Each spear had a hole in the tip. When he awoke he saw this dream as the answer to a problem that had him stymied: how to design a sewing machine. He could make the needle rise and descend, but not sew - until his dream told him to put the hole at the tip. The man was Elias Howe, who invented the first practical sewing machine.”
― José Silva, The Silva Mind Control Method

“That serves to illustrate there is this element of faith and this element of power. When you have people praying for you and you're praying yourself, coupled with the power of fasting, which makes you more humble and more teachable, you can learn things, even if it is given to you by revelation.
~~Russell M. Nelson: Father, Surgeon, Apostle by Spencer Condie”
― Spencer Condie

“People seem to think because I have a pretty fave I'm stupid... I have to work twice as hard as anyone else to convince people I have something resembling a brain"

-Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor”
― Laurie Whitmark

“She hadn't handled this much adrenaline in years. Not since the first time she'd stayed at the lab past curfew and had to hot-wire the dorm's keypad to get to her room.”
― Candace Freilich, The String Conspiracy

“Philo Taylor Farnsworth successfully demonstrated the first television on Sept. 7, 1927.
Since that time, conservatives have consumed countless hours of positive programming… and completely dismissed every second of it.”
― Bryan (Nyrhalahotep) Hardbarger

“You can invent alone, but you can only innovate together.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“Innovation is the propeller of generations and the catalyst to evolution. Thus, we intrepidly advance concepts that are, at times, overlooked.”
― Ahavel Aborishade