280 Quotes About Invention

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.