280 Quotes About Invention

Being on the side of the majority is often a sign that you are wrong, or the most unlikely to be right.

Confidentiality is a delicate bargain of trust.

Most shoes are shaped as if feet were made for shoes.

Two of humanity's greatest technological achievements (Alternating Current and Wireless Communication) were made by Tesla, yet he remains hugely unrecognized outside the scientific and geek circle. So, I hereby propose (to the United Nations) that 10th of July, the birthday of Nikola Tesla be recognized as International Invention Day.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive.

Great writing comes from nowhere and is about nothing. It is pure invention.

The invention does not depend on the reason, except, an idea or thought and the thought is itself the reason.

Lastly- and this was the most pitiless torture of all- we heard the rain and it was not raining! This was an infernal invention... Oh, I knew well enough how Erik obtained it! He filled with little stones a very long and narrow box, broken up inside with wooden and metal projections. The stones, in falling, struck against these projections and rebounded from one to another; and the result was a series of pattering sounds that exactly imitated a rainstorm.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realization and then a little realization built on that.