Quotes on Inventor

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination

I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.