Invention Quotes

"Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped."
-George Orwell

"Getting caught is the mother of invention."
-Robert Byrne

"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
-Charles F. Kettering

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
-Thomas A. Edison

"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."
-Eric Hoffer

"Necessity, who is the mother of invention."
-Plato

"Doubt is the father of invention."
-Galileo Galilei

"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
-Billy Connolly

"The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes."
-Robert Brustein

"Christ never existed, but is an invention of the Church."
-Luigi Cascioli

"The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education."
-Joel Hildebrand

"The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'"
-James Naismith

"The Invention of Love."
-Ben Brantley

"Invention is the mother of necessity."
-Thorstein Veblen

"Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned."
-Ignazio Silone

"In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented."
-Northrop Frye

"This is the latest invention that you have invented."
-Christian Vieri

"The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer."
-David Leavitt

"Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple."
-Willy Wonka

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
-Douglas Engelbart

"Marriage is a wonderful invention, but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit!"
-Billy Connelly

"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded."
-Chris Hadfield

"The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant."
-Craig Mchugh

"A guilty conscience is the mother of invention."
-Carolyn Wells

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."
-Roger Von Oech

"It never happened. It's an invention of some irresponsible writer."
-Jeffrey Loria

"The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution."
-David Cronenberg

"You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun."
-Brandee Bryant