One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric… — Henry Miller 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
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to… — Nikolay Semyonov Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more… — Herbert York Copy Share Image
I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
“The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system… — Ernst Alexanderson Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Come out with your unique signal and don’t always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility. — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to… — Joline Godfrey Copy Share Image
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
A guy who needs to prove himself is exactly who you don't want in charge of creating the most destructive invention human… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or… — John Major Copy Share Image
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an… — George Wald Copy Share Image
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
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