“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
Andre Maurois
“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”
Samuel Smiles
“I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
George Bernard Shaw
“In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish”
Evelyn Waugh
