On Invention

“Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.” - Leonardo da Vinci


“Doubt is the father of invention.” - Galileo Galilei


“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy


“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.” - Gustave Flaubert