Inventions - Inventors Quotes

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Eureka! (I have found it!)

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him – he may have a razor on him. (Editor, responding to a visit from John Logie Baird, inventor of a prototype television apparatus, 1925)

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent.

A tool is but an extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of man-kind.

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

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

I thank the host this evening for his kind remarks but I must insist upon one minor correction. God invented the talking machine. I only invented the first one that can be shut off. (at a dinner, the toastmaster mentioned his many inventions, dwelling at length on the talking machine.)