Quotes by Inventors & Engineers

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.