Howard Finster Quotes

We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out; we can't just drill our way out; we can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned American way, we're going to invent our way out, working together.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.

When you make $78 billion a year, as the three large oil companies are doing, you have no interest in changing the status quo…. Oil companies are not interested innovation.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe…. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static, our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

We’re not going to run out of wind.

Innovation is the answer to most problems including energy.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

I like the look of a windmill.

We can have enough clean energy to power every home.

Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

We know how to get all of the energy we need without using dirty or dangerous fuel sources. It is no longer a question of whether we can - but of whether we will

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

Yet now the industrialized world is moving away from fossil fuels and moving towards renewable sources of energy. And because we have not invested so much into education, we don't have the technology and sometimes we don't even have the capital to buy this technology.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.