Famous quotes containing the words henri, inventions and/or discoveries:
“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“It is remarkable what a value is still put upon wood even in this age and in this new country, a value more permanent and universal than that of gold. After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)