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\nHere\u2019s a selection of my favorite quotes on invention.
\n\u201c\u2026to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know\u201d \u2014 Sir Francis Bacon
\n\u201cTo understand is to invent.\u201d \u2014 Jean Piaget
\n\u201cInventing is a skill that some people have and some people don\u2019t. But you can learn how to invent.\u201d \u2014 Ray Dolby
\n\u201cI do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.\u201d \u2014 Nikola Tesla
\n\u201cDoubt is the father of invention.\u201d – Galileo Galilei
\n\u201cWant is the mistress of invention\u201d – Susanna Centlivre
\n\u201cNecessity, the mother of invention\u201d – Richard Franck
\n\u201cMothers are the necessity of invention.\u201d – Bill Watterson
\n\u201cI don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.\u201d – Agatha Christie
\n\u201cName the greatest of all inventors. Accident.\u201d \u2014 Mark Twain
\n\u201cI never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work\u201d – Thomas Alva Edison
\n\u201cInvention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration\u201d – Thomas Alva Edison
\n\u201cStumbling upon the next great invention in an ‘ah-ha!’ moment is a myth.\u201d – James Dyson
\n\u201cHuman subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.\u201d – Leonardo da Vinci
\n\u201cNature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.\u201d – Leonardo DaVinci
\n\u201cEvery science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles\u2014he can only discover them.\u201d \u2014 Thomas Paine
\n\u201cAll creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself \u2026 are the infinitely various \u201cleads\u201d from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.\u201d \u2014 Abraham Lincoln
\n\u201cTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.\u201d \u2014 Thomas Alva Edison
\n\u201cInventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.\u201d \u2014 Charles F. Kettering
\n\u201cInvention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.\u201d \u2014 Igor Stravinsky
\n\u201cNo amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.\u201d – Edward Hopper
\n\u201cOnly an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.\u2019 \u2014 Ralph Waldo Emerson
\n\u201cI invent nothing, I rediscover.\u201d – Auguste Rodin
\n\u201cInvention, 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\u201d – Joshua Reynolds
\n\u201cI invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.\u2019 \u2014 Henry Ford
\n\u201cToo often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison’s inventions\u201d – Ernest Dimnet
\n\u201cI\u2019m an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.\u201d – Ray Kurzweil
\n\u201cAn invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.\u201d \u2014 Edwin Herbert Land
\n\u201cInventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.\u201d \u2014 Ambrose Bierce
\n\u201cWhere a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried\u201d – Thomas Jefferson
\n\u201cThe production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.\u201d \u2014 Karl Marx
\n\u201cWe believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work\u201d – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
\n\u201cIt is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.\u201d \u2014 John Stuart Mill
\n\u201cIn the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people’s lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world\u201d – Margaret Mead
\n\u201cI must create a system, or be enslav’d by another man\u2019s.\u201d \u2014 William Blake
\n\u201cOur inventions mirror our secret wishes.\u201d \u2014 Lawrence George Durrell
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