Invention Quotes

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

— Deng Xiaoping

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

— Amar Bose

Money is only a human invention.

— Vanna Bonta

God is Man's greatest invention

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

The greatest Invention God Made Was Pussy

— 710baby

“life is a continous journey of transformation”

— Sukant Ratnakar

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

— Thomas A. Edison

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

— Thomas A. Edison

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

— Victor Hugo

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

— Hillary Clinton

“That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?”

— Warren Ellis

People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".

— Michael Ray

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

— Edward Hopper

“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”

— Dava Sobel

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

— Horace Walpole

Dont make haste because it is the invention of the devil.

— Vikrant Parsai

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops…

— Gene Simmons

No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to…

— Nikolay Semyonov

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.

— Linda Colley

“The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system…

— Ernst Alexanderson

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the…

— Joshua Reynolds

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist…

— Wole Soyinka

“Come out with your unique signal and don’t always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

You know, when I was in love, I was always inventing things. A whole array of tricks, illusions and optical effects to…

— Mathias Malzieu

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all…

— Anonymous

Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in…

— Oscar Hammerstein II

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he…

— Harper Lee

When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or…

— Reggie White

You will realize that doctrines are inventions of the human mind, as it tried to penetrate the mystery of God. You will…

— Pelagius

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just…

— Kim Dotcom

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,…

— Andre Breton

The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's…

— Erwin McManus

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of…

— George Bernard Shaw

Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved…

— Eric A. Havelock

The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not…

— John Wesley

“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They…

— Akira Kurosawa

I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these…

— Steve Toltz