Inventions - Inventors Quotes

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn’t been invented yet.

I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. (1896)

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

X-rays will prove to be a hoax.

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Name the greatest of all the inventors: Accidents.

Wireless (telegraphy) is all very well but I’d rather send a message by a boy on a pony!

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we (English) do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. (chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876)

Invention is the mother of necessity.