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"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."

Bell, Alexander Graham · Invention and Inventor · 1 fans >>
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"Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear."

Brecht, Bertolt · Invention and Inventor · 0 fans >>
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"The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on."

Burke, James E. · Invention and Inventor · 0 fans >>
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"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

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"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."

Carlyle, Thomas · Invention and Inventor · 0 fans >>
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Duell, Charles H. · Invention and Inventor · 0 fans >>
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"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."

Edison, Thomas A. · Invention and Inventor · 1 fans >>
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"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."

Edison, Thomas A. · Invention and Inventor · 0 fans >>
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"Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Invention and Inventor · 1 fans >>
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"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."

George, Henry · Invention and Inventor · 0 fans >>
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