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Quotes by Inventor
"The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay."
Will,
26
"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."
26
"It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth."
26
"It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined."
26
"I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author."
25
"Public influence is the real government of the world."
25
"I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc."
25
"What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done."
25
"People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it."
24
"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
24
"It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it."
23
"If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity."
23
"Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers."
22
"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything."
22
"Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes."
22
"We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by."
21
"I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry."
21
"The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on."
20
"I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway."
20
"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."
20
"The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country."
20
"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne."
20
"I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile."
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