Invention

"I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself."

"Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it."

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

"A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like."

"May I pack all inventions in burlaps and hide them in corners of Einsteins’ brains."

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

"Technologies needed [to help avoid a climate disaster]: Hydrogen produced without emitting carbon, Grid-scale electricity storage that can last a full season, Electrofuels, Advanced biofuels, Zero-carbon cement, Zero-carbon steel, Plant- and cell-based meat and dairy, Zero-carbon fertilizer, Next-generation nuclear fission, Nuclear fusion, Carbon capture (both direct air capture and point capture), Underground electricity transmission, Zero-carbon plastics, Geothermal energy, Pumped hydro, Thermal storage, Drought- and flood-tolerant food crops, Zero-carbon alternatives to palm oil, [and] Coolants that don’t contain F-gases."

"God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."

"The invention of inventing, it turns out, produces yet more inventions."

"Invention is both the institution of problem solving and advancing human obsolescence. We were naturally selected to replace ourselves."

"Imagination is the outreaching of mind... the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions..."

"All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product."