American inventor Quotes

Nikola Tesla

Samuel Morse

Elon Musk

Jonas Salk

Orville Wright

George Antheil

Lee De Forest

We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off....the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Charles Goodyear

An important part of invention today is being able to discover the problem.

Jerome H. Lemelson

There will come a point where no job is needed. You can have a job if you wanted to have a job for personal satisfaction. But the AI would be able to do everything [...] One of the challenges in the future will be how do we find meaning in life.

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

The job of the inventors is to provide the lead for a lagging system.

On electric light:

Like the light of the sun, it beautifies all things on which it shines, and is no less welcome in the palace than in the humblest home.

Lewis Howard Latimer

It seems to me that no one science can so well serve to co-ordinate and, as it were, bind together all of the sciences as the queen of them all, mathematics.

Edward Wilson Davis

The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease.... disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease.... He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so that we could discover them!

It is electromagnetism (EM) in all its many forms that has been so basic, that haunts us and guides us.

It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

Physical research by experimental methods is both a broadening and a narrowing field. There are many gaps yet to be filled, data to be accumulated, measurements to be made with great precision, but the limits within which we must work are becoming, at the same time, more and more defined.

Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality.

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

We learn, when we learn, only from experience, and then we only learn from our mistakes. Our successes only serve to reinforce our superstitions.

Arthur Jones (inventor)

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

I judge things from an evolutionary perspective — "How does this serve and contribute to the process of our own evolution?" — rather than think of good and evil in moral terms. I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

The worlds of thought and action overlap. What you think has a way of becoming true.

Only those who do not expect anything are never disappointed. Only those who never try, never fail. Anyone who is currently achieving anything in life is simultaneously risking failure. It is always better to fail in doing something than to excel in doing nothing. A flawed diamond is more valuable than a perfect brick. People who have no failures also have few victories.

John Landis Mason