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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power
of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Source: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit--Business
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Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
they have sought out many inventions.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 29)
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It is not true, it is a happy invention.
[It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]
Author: Giordano Bruno
Source: Gli Froici Furori
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Want, the mistress of invention.
Author: Mrs. Susannah Centlivre
Source: The Busy Body (act I, sc. 1)
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and
when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the
vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him
as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. XVI)
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Author: Charles H. Duell
Source: questionably attributed to
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Author: Charles H. Duell
Source: questionably attributed to
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Fancy)
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Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give--though it might seem bold--
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold.
Author: Henry S. Leigh
Source: The Two Ages
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She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter:
I say she never did invent this letter;
This is a man's invention and his hand.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at IV, iii)
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically
sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Gulliver's Travels (pt. III, ch. V, Voyage to Laputa)
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Gulliver's Travels (pt. III, ch. V, Voyage to Laputa)
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We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
"They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;
But when did woman ever yet invent?"
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Princess (II, l. 366)
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