Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The invention of email evolved from a challenge to solve a real world problem. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one. — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is… — Joe Kelly Copy Share Image
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of. — Richard Ouzounian Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older… — Tim Burton 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 discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish… — William Henry Preece Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory… — Philip Slater 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
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Most patentability requirements are concepts, they can be moulded to suit your invention” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need. — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
“Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.” — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
“Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.” — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image