I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

- Ivar Giaever

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

- Thomas A. Edison

Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.

- Richard Rhodes

Life is composed of different inventions.

- Mikhail Kalashnikov

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

- Larry Page

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

- John Moody

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

- Joanna Garcia

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

- John Stuart Mill

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

- James Dyson

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

- James Dyson

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

- Arnold H. Glasow

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

- Filippo Brunelleschi

Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

- Filippo Brunelleschi

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

- Ernst Mayr

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

- Emily Greene Balch

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

- Ethel Merman

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

- Bill Gates

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

- Bertrand Russell

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

- Benjamin Franklin

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

- Alva Myrdal