Invention Quotes
Most popular invention quotes

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel—but who?

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.
Want is the mistress of invention.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Invention breeds invention.
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Invention is the mother of necessity.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.
Want, the Mistress of Invention, still tempts me on.

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

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

I've always believed that our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.