Ingenuity Quotes

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.

We are a nation of innovators and problem-solvers who sparked revolutions in democratic government, civil rights, communications, flight, rural electrification and technology. We are a country defined by ideals now in need of rescue.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

Limits [to growth] are indeed imposed by the impact of present technologies and social organization on the biosphere, but we must have the ingenuity to change. And change we must.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Creativity is what makes humanity move. We were created to participate.

The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity.

I don’t care if it’s horse piss. It works!

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

Giving calls for genius.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Whoever imagines that, because so many inventions and so many improvements in machinery have been made, there remains little else to be discovered, has but a feeble conception of the infinitude and vastness of mechanical powers, or of the unlimited reach of science. Much has been discovered, infinitely more remains unrevealed. The ingenuity of man is exploring a reign without limits, and delving in a mine whose treasures are exhaustless.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.