The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Man has made use of his intelligence he invented stupidity.

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.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.