inventions

Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything.

If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far

Patents are not forever, but inventions are

So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they__ work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don__ expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!

Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.

The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc.