I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Invention 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 from nothing.
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
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