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.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
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.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
I invent nothing. I rediscover everything.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly – in any other sense than a man’s house is a monopoly.
Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine. (Radio Times, 1936)
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.
