Quotes about inventors, page 4

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

quote by Voltaire
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To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.

quote by Aldous Huxley
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Time is the inventor

Time, you are the greatest inventor.
You have invented evils
For every remedy I have found.
Evils demand remedies
And remedies fetch evils.
Time, you are my counter inventer.
30.07.2006

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

quote by John McPhee
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

quote by Sid Caesar
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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

quote by Robert Browning
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We can invent only with memory.

quote by Alphonse Karr
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.

quote by Auguste Rodin
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

quote by Charles F. Kettering
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

quote by Mark Twain
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I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

quote by Jerry B. Jenkins
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Rethink

Think think and rethink
Again again and again
Think rethink and invent
Invent and discover
Discover your root
Invent the moot
Who is your father
Father's father and father's father
And the problems
About about and about
And the seed of solution
There in.
Think think and think
Think think and rethink.

poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Daedalus in Sicily

All his life he was building something, inventing something.
Now, for a Cretan queen, an artificial heifer,
so as to cuckold the king. Then a labyrinth, the time for
the king himself, to hide from bewildered glances
an unbearable offspring. Or a flying contraption, when
the king figured himself so busy with new commissions.
The son of that journey perished falling into the sea,
like Phaeton, who, they say, also spurned his father’s
orders. Here, in Sicily, stiff on its scorching sand,
sits a very old man, capable of transporting
himself through the air, if robbed of other means of passage.
All his life he was building something, inventing something.
All his life from those clever constructions m from those inventions,
he had to flee. As though inventions
and constructions are anxious to rid themselves of their blueprints
like children ashamed of their parents, Presumably, that’s the fear
of replication. Waves are running onto the sand;
behind, shine the tusks of the local mountains.
Yet he had already invented, when he was young, the seesaw,
using the strong resemblance between motion and stasis.