Quotessence
Home / Topics / Inventions Quotes

Inventions Quotes

Browse 47 quotes about Inventions.

Inventions Quotes

“Of all the inventions Addie has seen her ushered into the world — steam-powered trains, electric lights, photography, and phones, and airplanes, and computers — movies might just be her favorite one. Books are wonderful, portable, lasting, but sitting there, in the darkened theater, the wide screen filling her vision, the world falls away, and for a few short hours she is someone else, plunged into romance and intrigue and comedy and adventure.”

ImaginationFantasyBooksComfortMoviesEscapismFavoritesInventions
Book:The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Create image

“With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything.”

WorldLifePurposeTimeHumanityWorkWealthDecisionPovertyPowerGreatnessProduceCallingSolitudeWasteValueProductivityConversionGiftGreatProductConvertInventionsPower Of Solitude
Book:How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Create image

“If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.”

WorldLifePurposeTimeHumanityWorkWealthPovertyGreatnessProduceCallingSolitudeWasteValueProductivityConversionGiftGreatProductConvertDiscoveriesInventionsPractices
Book:How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
Create image

“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.”

InspirationWorkImagineInformationInspireInnovationDareIsraelmore AyivorSavedImprovementInventionInterventionInvolvementEndMake It HappenSaveInitiateGoDo ItCompleteInspirationsBeginExtra MileImproveWorksInnovateFinishExtraInventionsImaginationsInventInformDare To WinInvolveInnovationsImprovementsInitiativesInterveneInterventionsFinish ItFight For ItInitiationsInvolvementsSaved For WorkTill All Is Done
Author:Israelmore Ayivor
Create image

“A lot of the mathematics discoveries occur through lucky accidents like that, [Calabi notes]. It's often a matter of connecting up ideas that might seem unrelated and then exploiting the newfound connection.”

LearningInnovationMathematicsDiscoveriesInventionsEugenio Calabi
Book:The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Create image

“I know not what discoveries, what inventions, what thoughts may leap from the brain of the world. I know not what garments of glory may be woven by the years to come. I cannot dream of the victories to be won upon the fields of thought; but I do know, that coming from the infinite sea of the future, there will never touch this 'bank and shoal of time' a richer gift, a rarer blessing than liberty for man, for woman, and for child.”

LibertySeaFutureGloryThoughtsGiftDiscoveriesInventionsVictories
Book:The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
Create image

“Klaus leaned out the window and began to pour the mixture of blackstrap molasses, wild clover honey, corn syrup, aged balsamic vinegar, apple butter, strawberry jam, caramel sauce, maple syrup, butterscotch topping, maraschino liqueur, virgin and extra-virgin olive oil, lemon curd, dried apricots, mango chutney, crema di noci, tamarind paste, hot mustard, marshmallows, creamed corn, peanut butter, grape preserves, salt water taffy, condensed milk, pumpkin pie filling, and glue onto the closest wheels, while his sister tossed the hammocks out of the door, and if you have read anything of the Baudelaire orphans' lives - which I hope you have not - then you will not be surprised to read that Violet's invention worked perfectly.”

FoodHumourInventionsBaudelaires
Book:The Slippery Slope
Create image

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

LifeInspirationalWritingWarPhilosophyWisdomMotivationalScienceQuotesPeaceMoneyKnowledgeTechnologyPowerConversationSpeechWeaponsTraditionMachinesMeetingsTraditionalMovieStoryPeace Of MindMoralsRhetoricUrban20th CenturyNew AgeCreative WritingAmit KalantriAmit Kalantri QuotesPublic SpeakingProverbsMissilesSocial NetworkingBloggingCharactersAmit Kalantri WriterAdageNovel WritingBook WritingEssayScriptAdvertisementBlogModern TimesMovie DialogueScript WritingCatchphrasesAlliterationsTag LinesScriptwritingCatch LinesSpeechwritingPunchlineMachineInventionsManpowerWorld WarSimplicity In LifeComplicated LifeOld TimesPresent TimesMissileOld Is Gold
Book:Wealth of Words
Create image

“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under the ground in his vineyard: and they digged over the ground, gold they found none, but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following: so assuredly the search and stir to make gold hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful inventions and experiments, as well for the disclosing of nature as for the use of man's life.”

LifeReasonNatureGoldExperimentsAlchemyRootInventionsAesopAesop S Fables
Book:The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning
Create image

“„Well James,“ he said addressing me, as he does the officers in his command, informally, „it is true that many of our recent inventions will become much improved with use, and one day soon we may even have engines which do not break down with so much wheezing and groaning every two days of use, but I firmly believe that, while machines are perfectible, men are not. Even a perfect machine must be run by men and, hence, subject to human errors. Take our situation as an example. Our machines keep us safe and warm, yet a simple mistake on our part, such as choosing one channel over another, could bring it all to naught and place us at the mercy of elemental nature. I believe we should work on the perfection of men before we worry overly about the perfection of his machines.”

ProgressMankindIndustryMachinesHumankindInventionsPower Of NatureHumankind Human Nature
Book:North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames
Create image

“Edison and a few others had been working on improvements to Alexander Bell’s initial “telephone” device. Tesla was attempting to make the devices work without the aid of any wires at all. One didn’t have to be much of a scientist to know that this was absurd. Even if by some miracle Tesla managed to make them function, who in the world would have any use for them?”

FutureWirelessScientistsMobile PhonesScientificInventionsCell Phones
Book:The Last Days of Night
Create image

“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that Galilei ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that Copernicus ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that Kepler discovered his three laws—discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that Newton gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that Euclid, Cavalieri, Descartes, and Leibniz, almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of Galvani, Volta, Franklin and Morse, of Trevithick, Watt and Fulton and of all the pioneers of progress—that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that Æschylus and Shakespeare, Burns, and Beranger, Goethe and Schiller, and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?”

LightInspirationScienceFictionProgressBooksBibleIndiaTragedyMathematicsIntelligenceChinaMathExperimentsWriterChemistryRomePoetsEgyptGreeceNewtonPioneersShakespeareFranklinSongsLibrariesWilliam ShakespeareDiscoveriesThe BibleEuclidGoetheInventionsOpticsCopernicusDescartesKeplerIsaac NewtonLaws Of MotionGalileoLeibnizBurnsJames WattSchillerTheory Of GravityAeschylusJohannes KeplerNicolaus CopernicusPentateuchBenjamin FranklinGalileo GalileiRobert BurnsWattMorseGottfried LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizJohann Wolfgang Von GoetheRené DescartesCavalieriPneumaticsAlessandro VoltaBerangerBonaventura CavalieriBonaventura Francesco CavalieriFultonGalvaniGottfried Von LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Von LeibnizHydrostaticsJohann Von GoetheLuigi Aloisio GalvaniLuigi GalvaniPierre Jean De BérangerRichard TrevithickRobert FultonSamuel Finley Breese MorseSamuel MorseTheory Of Universal GravitationTrevethickVoltaÆSchylus
Book:Some Mistakes of Moses
Create image

“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.”

ScienceMotivational QuotesBusinessTechnologyProgressBusiness QuotesProgressiveInspiring QuotesSociety QuotesFuture QuotesRasheed Ogunlaru QuotesRasheed OgunlaruTechnology QuotesHuman EvolutionInnovation QuotesTechHistory Of MankindFuture QuotationsTechnology AddictionTechnological ProgressInventionsAdvanceTechnological EvolutionInnovatorInventions QuotesInnovation WisdomAdvances
Author:Rasheed Ogunlaru
Create image

“There are moments in history when a technological invention bursts into the world and all of humanity watches with a mixture of appreciation and fear: appreciation of its huge potential, and fear of the equally huge danger that lurks within it. Atomic energy, artificial intelligence, and human cloning are just a few examples of promising inventions that can give humanity so much--but can also take everything away.”

TechnologyDangerInnovationAiPotentialArtificial IntelligenceCloningAtomic EnergyInventionsTechnological Advances
Book:Autocorrect: Stories
Create image

“Our inventions have long been ahead of us in terms of efficiency and sanity, productivity and predictability. Oh, how we’ve wished we could be manmade, too. What has been keeping us back, keeping us messy? The animal impediment, within and without. Eliminating these impediments, we will surely be catching up with our machines, resembling them more and more impeccably.”

HumanityProgressIndustryPerfectionMachinesAnimalsAutomationInventionsManmadeAnimal Brain
Book:Things That Are
Create image

“Thomas Edison was no an inventor but a very evil wealthy man with connections to the most wealthy Americans. He killed animals in order to demonize Nikola Tesla, the greatest inventor in human history. However, you will never learn about Tesla in any school system because he never wanted to be wealthy and his inventions were for the purpose of helping mankind. When JP Morgan, one of the most evil wealthy men in America, found out that Tesla wanted to give every human in the world free electricity, he stopped paying him and destroyed his invention to supply that free electricity. This is why you'll never learn about Tesla in the public school system.”

GovernmentEducationPublic SchoolTeslaInventionsMorganEdisonJp Morgan
Author:James Thomas Kesterson Jr
Create image

“indigenismo can subvert the colonized mentality found among mestizo peoples that elevates the European and denigrates the Indian. For Chicano/a youth, discovering they have roots in indigenous, often advanced, pre-Columbian cultures can help develop a sense of potential empowerment. "My ancestors invented rubber? Wow!" exclaimed one incredulous Los Angeles gang member to a youth counselor telling him about ancient Mexico and the Olmecas (who didn't exactly invent rubber, since Nature was the inventor, but who surely did develop it). Such discoveries can be a first step toward understanding and respecting the worldview of indigenous peoples.”

RespectLos AngelesIndigenousAncestorsInventionsChicanoEuropeansIndigenismoMestizo
Book:De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
Create image

“‘The onboard computer just wants to say a few words before we leave.’ The speakers in the cabin crackled into life. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome you on-board the presidential shuttle for tonight’s illicit flight, Alfa Bravo Charlie. I would just like to say it’s a pleasure to meet you all and thank you so much for coming here tonight to steal me. To be honest I don’t get out much these days so this is something of a special occasion.’ ‘It will be for us too if we get caught,’ Semilla said sardonically.”

PastScienceSecretTechnologyFutureArtificial IntelligencePresentLaugh Out LoudInventionsScience Adventure
Book:Our Blue Orange
Create image

“The weapon gave a rusty croak. ‘I don’t normally do weather reports anymore,’ the gun informed him politely. ‘Why is that?’ ‘Ever since the demise of the old metropolis, there has been no control of the weather systems. Anyone who would have appreciated a weather forecast perished an awful long time ago. Besides, every time I started to inform my potential victims of the current cloud formations, or wind velocity, or barometric pressure, or potential precipitation, they simply ran away.”

LovePastScienceFictionMysteryTwistsInventionsPlot TurnsHi Tech
Book:Our Blue Orange
Create image

“What a life we live. Full of questions, adventures, stories, mistakes, good, quests, bad, miracles, lessons, people, blessings, journeys, inventions, music, animals, history, cultures, religions, prophecies, planets, stars, careers, movies, plants, hate, love, and so much more.”

PeopleLoveStoriesHateStarsMusicCareersHistoryPlanetsLessonsGoodMistakesAnimalsQuestsBlessingsBadMiraclesMoviesPlantsAdventuresReligionsThankful QuotesJourneysCulturesInventionsSPropheciesJonathan Anthony Burkett
Author:Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Create image

“[Dream that lead to real-life invention] A man was in a jungle surrounded by saages. They were coming menacingly close to him, their spears rising, then descending. Each spear had a hole in the tip. When he awoke he saw this dream as the answer to a problem that had him stymied: how to design a sewing machine. He could make the needle rise and descend, but not sew - until his dream told him to put the hole at the tip. The man was Elias Howe, who invented the first practical sewing machine.”

InspirationDreamsInventionDreamingInventorInventingInventionsInventInventors
Book:The Silva Mind Control Method
Create image

“Of all the inventions Addie has seen ushered into the world—steam-powered trains, electric lights, photography, and phones, and airplanes, and computers—movies might just be her favorite one. Books are wonderful, portable, lasting, but sitting there, in the darkened theater, the wide screen filling her vision, the world falls away, and for a few short hours she is someone else, plunged into romance and intrigue and comedy and adventure. All of it complete with 4K picture and stereo sound. A quiet heaviness fills her chest when the credits roll. For a while she was weightless, but now she returns to herself, sinking until her feet are back on the ground.”

RealityImaginationFantasyBooksTheaterPretendingMoviesEscapismFilmsInventions
Book:The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Create image