Inventive Spirit Quotes

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

The periods between my 11th and 18th years remain the most vivid in my memory because this was the time of my first attempts at experimentation, which might never have been made had I lived in the city. I made hazardous investigations of the principles of flight, launching myself from the tops of haystacks with a homemade glider.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.