To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world

Ideas are the seeds of invention and actions are the fertilizers.

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can't see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can't feel.

Poverty is the origin of invention

Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions

Poverty is the mother of invention

If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

I doubt whether all mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.

Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.