Quotes about Inventions

"Our inventions are won't to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
-Henry David Thoreau

"An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?"
-Rutherford B. Hayes

"Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions."
-Louis Pasteur

"Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."
-Bertrand Russell

"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

"One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini."
-James Dyson

"Do not debate! is one of my inventions."
-Deng Xiaoping

"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love."
-Andre Maurois

"This is one of the best inventions in the real estate market that I have seen."
-Peter Maurer

"[The] world [is] in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment."
-Joyce Cary

"We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions."
-Wen Jiabao

"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder."
-Andre Maurois

"Absolutely groundless, idle inventions."
-Sergei Yastrzhembsky

"Our inventions mirror our secret wishes."
-Lawrence Durrell

"Among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions."
-Sue Miller

"Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions."
-Ernest Dimnet

"The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors."
-Emil Nolde