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14 quotesA new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
Invention and Inventor
Francis Picabia
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Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
Invention and Inventor
Mark Twain
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Invention and Inventor
Albert Gyorgyi
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Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Invention and Inventor
Charles H. Duell
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Fear is a great inventor.
Invention and Inventor
French Proverb
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Invention and Inventor
Thomas A. Edison
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If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
Invention and Inventor
George Gobel
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Invention and Inventor
Jonathan Swift
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Invention and Inventor
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
Invention and Inventor
Lyndon B. Johnson
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Invention and Inventor
Thomas Carlyle
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Invention and Inventor
Bertolt Brecht
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We can invent only with memory.
Invention and Inventor
Alphonse Karr
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
Invention and Inventor
Andre Maurois
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun