Quotes: Inventions

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

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions – board games, recipes… we never stopped inventing.

But if inventions have increased man’s power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

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

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.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.