#inventions

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#marriage #nikola-tesla #passion #marriage

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forgot #forgotten-past #inventions #literature #literature-quotes

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#geometry #inventions #poetry #science #sure

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#country #few #inventions #needs

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. ↗

— John Major

#dollars #factories #industries #into #inventions

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#continents #discoveries #great #interchange #inventions

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#applies #arts #based #discoveries #discovers

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? ↗

— Enrico Bombieri

#inventions #math #perspective #science #science

Did you ever think about the creation of the flame-thrower? Someone, somewhere, at some time must have been sitting on his porch, and said, thoughtfully, 'I want to set him on fire.' gesturing to his neighbor. His friend who sat beside him and happened to be handy with tools said, 'I can do that.' Thus, we have a flame thrower. ↗

— John Larson

#humor #inventions #humor