Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
they have sought out many inventions.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
they have sought out many inventions.

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.

Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
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We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
"They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;
But when did woman ever yet invent?"

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
a complex tool. And read more

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.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Want, the mistress of invention.

Want, the mistress of invention.

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
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Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam,
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give--though it might seem bold--
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,