Top 45 Greatest Invention Quotes
#1. Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
Albert Einstein
#3. If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
John Banville
#4. The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.
Kim Dotcom
#5. I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.
Meghan Trainor
#6. Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
Dave Barry
#7. Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.
Tom Robbins
#8. They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world - and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization.
Dan Gutman
#9. Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.
Jenna Black
#10. Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,
Diana Vreeland
#11. Love is the Creator's greatest invention and, as St. Ambrose said, that is especially true when our entire spirit and body are involved in this extraordinary rite, which is after all the rite of our own birth and of our descent.
Dario Fo
#12. The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Thomas A. Edison
#13. Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I get bored and impatient. With Zumba, you're dancing, you're moving your hips. So much fun.
Robin Wright
#14. A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
Nicky Wire
#15. pooping is god's greatest invention
Me
#16. So. Tell me," Marlowe tried gamely, "what do you think is man's greatest invention?"
Jericho turned his head just slightly toward Marlowe, looking him straight in the eye. "God.
Libba Bray
#17. I checked out the wine. Screw cap. The greatest invention since fire.
Janet Evanovich
#18. You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.
Jeff Foxworthy
#19. Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office.
Scott Raab
#20. A hug from a child! he exclaims. Perhaps God's greatest invention!
Adam Gidwitz
#21. America is Europe's greatest invention.
A.A. Gill
#22. Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money.
Takafumi Horie
#23. The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
Alfred North Whitehead
#25. The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to
converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Abraham Lincoln
#26. To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
Bill Bryson
#27. I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.
Tom Lenk
#28. Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
Rob Sheffield
#29. The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.
Jane Haddam
#30. Pfft. Wine is the greatest invention. Next to the vibrator, of course. They're equally fabulous.
Emma Hart
#31. One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But ... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
#32. The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
Bill Gates
#33. But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.
Robert Fulton
#34. The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#35. Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.
Aldous Huxley
#36. The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
John Banville
#37. An exchange student from Afghanistan "finds himself in the midst of America's circus of self-invention" as he experiences Halloween for the first time. His hosts bauble, "It's the greatest of holidays when you can become anything you want.
Ron Suskind
#38. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.
Mary Shelley
#39. The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
Lewis Thomas
#40. Evil's greatest triumph may be its success in portraying religion as an enemy of pleasure when, in fact, religion accounts for its source: every good and enjoyable thing is the invention of a Creator who lavished gifts on the world.
Philip Yancey
#41. It is striking that the observational search for extraterrestrial life began in the same generation as the invention of the telescope, and with the greatest theoretician of the age.
Carl Sagan
#42. Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
Victor Hugo
#43. There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention ...
Joshua Reynolds
#44. Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?
Christian Nestell Bovee
#45. The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.
Dave Barry
