Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
a complex tool. And read more

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power
of a man and the well-being of mankind.

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

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

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
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Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give--though it might seem bold--
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold.

She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter:
I say she never did invent this letter;
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She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter:
I say she never did invent this letter;
This is a man's invention and his hand.

Want, the mistress of invention.

Want, the mistress of invention.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

It is not true, it is a happy invention.
[It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]

It is not true, it is a happy invention.
[It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]