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Letter "I" » inventions
«Do not debate! is one of my inventions.»
«A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
destined, eager, examples, inventions, patient of, Seeing Eye, well-made
«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.»
Author: Mark Kennedy
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
Airplanes, automobile, inventions, laziness, technological, volumes
«Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
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«But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant, either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
admirable, arrangement, conceived, dozen, great seal, inventions, seal, Seal of, stupendous, sublimity, The Admirable, two dozen, various
«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.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
devise, devises, devising, direct, invention, inventions, lacking, simple, subtleties, subtlety, superfluous
«America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.»
Author: Will Smith
(Actor, Author, Producer, Singer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
conceives, inventions
«It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.»
«In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
geography, inventions, inventors, sublime, the inventor
«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.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Church,
Religion
| Keywords:
Christian Churches, churches, enslave, institutions, inventions, Jewish, monopolize, monopolized, other than, set up, terrify, Turkish
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