quotations about invention and inventing
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create
JOHN GALSWORTHY
The Forsyte Saga
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness.
T.S. ELIOT
The Rock
The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
L. FRANK BAUM
The Lost Princess of Oz