James Watt Quotes

• James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Change, Science, Two

  Jeremy Rifkin (2003). “The Hydrogen Economy”, p.6, Penguin

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• Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Technology, Discovery

  Edward Teller, Judith Schoolery (2009). “Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics”, p.42, Basic Books

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• Para que nazca algo nuevo, tiene que haber un suceso. Newton vio caer una manzana; James Watt vio hervir una tetera; Roentgen empañó unas placas fotográficas. Y estas personas sabían lo suficiente como para traducir sucesos ordinarios en algo nuevo.

  Alexander Fleming

  Otoño, Ciencia, Niebla

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Newton, Inventor

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• James Watt se distinguió igualmente como filósofo natural y químico; sus inventos demuestran su profundo conocimiento de esas ciencias y esa característica peculiar del genio: la unión de ellas para su aplicación práctica.

  Humphry Davy

  Profundo, Peculiar, Genio

  Sir Humphry Davy (2001). "The Collected Works of Sir Humphrey Davy: Discursos pronunciados ante la Royal Society. Elementos de química agrícola, pt. I"

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