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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best -- make it all up -- but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provided you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of , it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in towns: in Italy, in Germany, in France, in Spain, in Holland, in England, and so on.

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. .

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. .

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity--gunpowder and romantic love. .

Edison did not invent the first talking machine -- he invented the first on that could be turned off.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. .

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. .

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. .