You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves… — Horace Copy Share Image
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“If you were born alone to die alone - socializing is not a must - when you haven't built a society within… — Kangoma Kindembo Copy Share Image
A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to… — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now… — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure… And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention.… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that… — Alain Aspect Copy Share Image
Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. — Claude M. Bristol Copy Share Image
Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but… — Darien Fawkes Copy Share Image
