New Inventions Quotes

• Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Promise, President, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.517

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• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

  Lord Byron

  Birthday, Soul, Age

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Suicide, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Discovery, Littles

  "Tesla, Master of Lightning" by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, (p. 82), 1999.

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• We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Believe, Men

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• Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Memories, Creativity, Innovation

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.7

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

  Lefty Gomez

  Tired, Pet, Goldfish

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• Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Patents, Sin, Invention

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74

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• We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Environment, Invention

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Believe, Play Time, People

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• We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.

  Dalai Lama

  Generations, Seven, Adopted

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sputnik, Rockets, Fireworks

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Genius, Mass, Protest

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• A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

  Joseph Story

  People, Poison, Invention

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• Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

  David Gordon Green

  Projects, Industry, Invention

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

  Bernard Arnault

  Ideas, Campaigns, Designer

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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• A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

  Joyce Cary

  Art, Ideas, World

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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• God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

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• I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

  Alanna Ubach

  People, Firsts, Plastic

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• We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivation, Children, Real

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• Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

  Steve Carell

  Technology, Lakes, People

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• If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Patents, Monopoly

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