The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
I don’t mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don’t even mind using someone’s reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Trust you will avoid the gigantic mistake of alternating current. (writing to Niagara Falls Power Company)
Hard work is the soundest investment. It provides a neat security for your widow’s next husband.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood […]
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as well known as Henry Ford’s, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, […]
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
