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Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.


Voltaire


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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.


Walt Whitman


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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.


Mark Twain


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I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.


Will McDonough


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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.


John Sladek


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He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.


Dava Sobel


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It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.


Mark Twain


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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.


Alexander Graham Bell


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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.


Harry Seidler


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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


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