Inventor Quotes

Nikola Tesla

Sergei Eisenstein

Guglielmo Marconi

Samuel Morse

Elon Musk

Hedy Lamarr

Jonas Salk

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

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

Charles Goodyear

The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds, and few go beyond them.

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.

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.

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

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.

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I was fortunate that my parents were bright, loving people who did everything they could to help me. I'm glad I was able to play baseball and soccer. I'm gratified that I was a smart boy who went to MIT. But looking back, I know there was anger and dislocation. I'm glad I've been able to overcome that, as many other immigrant kids have as well. But some haven't. Some have dysfunctional and destructive families. Some are bitter. Some are blamers. Some are just crazy – call them sociopaths if you prefer — and their alienation has brought out the worst in them. Instead of filing a lawsuit when they felt wronged, as I have done, they bought guns. This is the nation we live in.

Shiva Ayyadurai

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

The deeper the insight we obtain into the mysterious workings of nature's forces... the more we are convinced that we are still standing in the vestibule of science; that an unexplored world still lies before us; and however much we may discover, we know not whether mankind will ever arrive at a full knowledge of nature.

Werner von Siemens

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.

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

The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.

The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.

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.

Since the beginning of time, mankind has considered it as an expression of its Earthly weakness and inadequacy to be bound to the Earth, to be unable to free itself from the mysterious shackles of gravity.

Herman Potočnik

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

Necessity is the cause of many inventions but the best ones are born of desire.

Guglielmo Marconi

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

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

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

James O. Fraser

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

I became more and more interested in the mechanics of creativity...

Genrich Altshuller

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