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.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
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.
The wireless telegraph is one of the most wonderful inventions the world has ever seen. I think it will be of great commercial use some day and as I have seen it demonstrated on the ship in which I have just arrived I can say that it is very marvelous indeed.
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 of nothing; he who has laid up no materials can produce no combinations.
The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it… Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient. To this compulsory combination we shall have to adjust ourselves.
