Inventor of penicillin Quotes

“Patents need inventors more than inventors need patents”

“Mr. Alexander Graham Bell claims to have invented [photophone transmitter], though really it was created through a collaborative effort with Mr. Charles Sumner Tainter. In all honesty,” she said, “a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.”

“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”

“I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them.”

“Inventors do not invent for financial gain, they invent simply because they love to invent”

“The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.”

“That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of acids that permeated the corridor and came to the notice of every visitor. Rolandsen made no secret of the fact that he had all these medicaments there solely to disguise the aroma of all the brandy he consumed. But this was part of an act designed purely to give himself an air of inscrutability.”

“To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man”

“The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent.”

“Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.”