Invention Quotes

"Everything has yet to be invented."

"If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness."

Jeff Bezos

"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."

R. Buckminster Fuller

“Our need will be the real creator.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

“Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.”

“The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert.”

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”

“The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.”

“The propriety of stimulating by rewards the invention and introduction of useful improvements, is admitted without difficulty.”

"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."

Jules Verne

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

Thomas A. Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Thomas A. Edison

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."

Mary Shelley

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Kay

“I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures.”

James Dyson

“Failure and invention are inseparable twins.”

Jeff Bezos

“The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”

Jules Verne

"The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."

Alfred North Whitehead

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

“Architecture is invention.”

Oscar Niemeyer

“The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine.”

“As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.”