If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt. — Els Borst Copy Share Image
The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace. — John Bruton Copy Share Image
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Every invention was borne out of impossible. So impossible does not exist in the world of development. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“And the dizzying arsenal of our modern technology is a leap in innovation perhaps matched in the entire history of life only… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
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