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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.
Nikola Tesla
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Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.
Charles Goodyear
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The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds, and few go beyond them.
Theo Jansen
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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.
James Naismith
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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.
Elihu Thomson
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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.
Nils Bohlin
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I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.
Josiah Warren
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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.
Samuel Morse
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My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.
William Kamkwamba
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It is electromagnetism (EM) in all its many forms that has been so basic, that haunts us and guides us.
Nick Holonyak
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so that we could discover them!
Orville Wright
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Necessity is the cause of many inventions but the best ones are born of desire.
Guglielmo Marconi
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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.
Phineas Quimby
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I became more and more interested in the mechanics of creativity...
Genrich Altshuller
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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
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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
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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
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The job of the inventors is to provide the lead for a lagging system.
Jacob Rabinow
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It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.
George Antheil
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An important part of invention today is being able to discover the problem.
Jerome H. Lemelson
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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
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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
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The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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People have been making love and having sex in space over the thousands of years that our ancestors lived and traveled in small hunting-and-gathering bands. Earth is in Space.
Vanna Bonta
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There is a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income, or something like that, due to automation.
Explaining what will happen when robots take people's jobs.
Elon Musk
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