John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is always an underlying spirit of invention at Nike - we love to create something that has never before existed. And… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just… — James Jorash Copy Share Image
I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in… — George Burns Copy Share Image
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You know the expression, 'Necessity is the mother of Invention'? It's gotten completely reversed. Now, it's 'Invention is the mother of Necessity.'… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always… — Plato Copy Share Image
“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
“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
UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
If Necessity Is the Mother of Invention then Frustration is Father Of Creativity.. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
