Ten Most Popular Quotes By Inventors
"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius." — Sid Caesar
Whether it's by creating wheels or ways to slice bread, inventors affect our day-to-day lives enormously. These creative people are problem solvers who are constantly seeking better ways to do things. Their curiosity and persistence helps them change the world.
Try to imagine your life without the phone (Alexander Graham Bell), television (Philo T. Farnsworth) or the World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee). Inventors also help us to extend our lives; think of pasteurization (Louis Pasteur), penicillin (Alexander Fleming) and the polio vaccine (Jonas Salk).
In honor of innovators everywhere, we bring you these quotes by inventors:
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"I have not failed 10,000 times, I've successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work."
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"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen."
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"When you can do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
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"Nature makes penicillin. I just found it."
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
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"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."
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"There are very few dead ends to anything except in peoples' minds."
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"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."
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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
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