Quotes About Chinese Inventions

#1. The Four Great Chinese Inventions - compass, gun-powder, paper, and print - are legendary. Less talked about are meritocracy and banknotes.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#2. The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.

Ibn Warraq

#3. There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.

Warren Ellis

#4. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. To stand out is to be known for something outstanding

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.

James Walsh

#7. Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#8. Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

Charles Goodnight

#9. I submit these assorted pieces of evidence I'm unwilling to categorize!

Lemony Snicket