This is the patent age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
One invention still lacking: how to reverse explosions.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Want is the mistress of invention.
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
I’ve met many of these inventors who invent something that cannot work, that is theoretically impossible. But they spent three years developing it, running a motor without electricity, with magnets. You explain to them it won’t work. It violates the second law of thermodynamics. And they say, “Don’t give me your goddamn Washington laws.”
An amazing invention – but who would ever want to use one? (made a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, patented on 7 March 1876)
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time or dreaming.
Matrimony – the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
