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
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people. — Larry Page Copy Share Image
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century. — Tom Lenk Copy Share Image
When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence… — Irving Kaufman Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
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