It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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.
As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xer...
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done...
Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught
Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.
Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what the...
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned...
An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a dissatisfaction that keeps one a step away from sliding into mediocrity.
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