"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
— Mary Shelley

"When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void."
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."
— Nikola Tesla

"People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don't understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they're so proud of their inventions. What's worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water."
— Akira Kurosawa (Something Like An Autobiography)

"It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best."
— Thomas More

"Well, I had no choice, did I? I'm a woman. Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men. You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent, not only myself, but ways of escape no one has every thought of before. And I've succeeded because I've always known I was born to dominate your sex and avenge my own. "
— Marquise de Merteuil

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
— Thomas Edison

"Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all...

Which is exactly why you have to ask "Why?" and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH..."
— Joe Kelly (Douglas Fredericks and the House of They)

"I hope this will give some check to the rage of destroying trees that grow near houses, which has accompanied our late improvements in gardening, from an opinion of their being unwholesome. I am certain, from long observation, that there is nothing unhealthy in the air of woods; for we Americans have every where our country habitations in the midst of woods, and no people on earth enjoy better health, or are more prolific."
— Benjamin Franlin; 'The Invention of Air' by Steven Johnson