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Quotes about invention and invent
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. (Bierce Ambrose)
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. (Bierce Ambrose)
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on. (Bierce Ambrose)
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. (Bierce Ambrose)
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Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Bierce Ambrose)
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. (Bierce Ambrose)
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. (Bierce Ambrose)
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. (Bierce Ambrose)
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. (Bierce Ambrose)
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. (Bierce Ambrose)
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. (Bierce Ambrose)
We can invent only with memory. (Bierce Ambrose)
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love. (Bierce Ambrose)
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. (Bierce Ambrose)
Fear is a great inventor. (Bierce Ambrose)
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. (Bierce Ambrose)
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul. (Bierce Ambrose)
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. (Bierce Ambrose)
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. (Bierce Ambrose)
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. (Bierce Ambrose)
They think they can make fuel from horse manure... Now I don't know if your car will be able to get thirty miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. (Bierce Ambrose)
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. (Bierce Ambrose)
I invented the cordless extension cord. (Bierce Ambrose)
A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. (Bierce Ambrose)
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