quotations about invention and inventing
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
MARY SHELLEY
introduction, Frankenstein
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
EDWIN H. LAND
attributed, Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create
JOHN GALSWORTHY
The Forsyte Saga
The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
L. FRANK BAUM
The Lost Princess of Oz