Necessity is the mother-in-law of patents. — The Covert Comic Aka John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work. — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it. — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth -… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research. — Arthur E. Kennelly Copy Share Image
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone,… — George Iles Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image