Famous Quotes

You’ll notice throughout the site there are quotes on various pages. Below is a list of these quotes.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. — Benjamin Franklin

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! — Thomas Edison

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. — Jonathan Swift

I found 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb. — Thomas A. Edison

If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners. — Johnny Carson

Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society, nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. — Albert Einstein

To forget one’s ancestor’s is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root. — Chinese Proverb

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. — Thomas A. Edison

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. — Dave Barry