Discovery And Invention Quotes

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student’s own hands…[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

I start where the last man left off.

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It’s a very exciting time.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

We have a process that continually looks back to him for guidance, but it also combines that with a tremendous amount of discovery and invention, as well, because of the demands of the medium and the opportunities of the medium.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.