“In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Scientists seek to know the mind of god while engineers seek to imitate Him.”
Mark Grant
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Oscar Wilde
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
Andre Maurois
“Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”
Claude M. Bristol
“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
