Inventor Quotes - page 5

Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!" "The what?" said Richard. "The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a ..." "Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity." "Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissive shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." ... "You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap ... ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see. (Douglas Adams)
A few years ago, the family of the inventor of the AR-15 said he would have been horrified to know that its design was being used to slaughter children and other innocent lives instead of being used as a military weapon on the battlefields, as it was designed - that's what it was designed for. Enough. Enough. View quote
Joe Biden
The effective inventor of the telescope and compound microscope was Galileo... Galileo's account of the path of the rays through the concave eye-piece and convex objective which he used was not satisfactory and was considerably improved by Kepler, who suggested the use of two convex lenses which became the basis of later instruments. Kepler had already written an important optical treatise in the form of a commentary on Witelo's Perspectiva... His improvements to the telescope may be regarded as what he had learned from the thirteenth-century writer. View quote
Johannes Kepler