Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

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

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

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

In some cases inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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

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!

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.

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

All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.

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

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane the automobile the computer - says little about his intelligence but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Inventions have long since reached their limit and I see no hope for further development.

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.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio the telephone Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

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

Of all of our inventions for mass communication pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. 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!

Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

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