“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.” — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There is something about my mother that drives her critics slightly potty, so they resort to wild invention to get at her. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything… — Sophie Hunger Copy Share Image
We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry;… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
