280 Quotes About Invention

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens – it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the ‘middle man’ as it were.

If necessity is the mother of all invention, boredom has to be an aunt of all invention. A bored man tries everything, even if he fails a thousand times.

To invent anything at all is an act of sheer genius, and, in a commercial age like ours, shows considerable physical courage. Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it. Upon the other hand, to corroborate a falsehood is a distinctly cowardly action. I know it is a thing that the newspapers do one for the other, every day, but it is not the act of a gentleman. No Gentleman ever corroborates anything.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

I don't like museums, I like labs.