...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, — Eduardo J. Padron Copy Share Image
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things,… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself. — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
[Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back,… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever.… — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
“I had entered the Green [of Glasgow] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was… — James Watt Copy Share Image
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. — Douglas Engelbart Copy Share Image
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
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