Inventor Quotes

No rest is to be found
But in Thy blessèd love;
O let my wish be crowned
And send it from above.

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.

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

Sergei Eisenstein

Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.

James O. Fraser

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

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

One thing is certain; I can declare to you that from the day of my discovery to the present time I have never ceased to study and investigate those phenomena, anxious as I always am to wring some other secret from the enormous mystery of the universe.

Guglielmo Marconi

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.

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.

Experiments are intended to teach, and not to mystify.

William Sturgeon

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.

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.

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

Kamala [Harris] is quite literally a communist. She wants not merely equal opportunity, but equal outcomes.

I was interested in making a different kind of instrument. And I wanted, of course, to make an apparatus that would be controlled in space, exploiting electrical fields, and that would use little energy. Therefore I used electronic technology to create a musical instrument that would provide greater resources.

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