The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. — James Naismith Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
“Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation. — George Takei Copy Share Image
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted… — James Rowland Angell Copy Share Image
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I… — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop… — James Naismith Copy Share Image
I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages. — David Altmejd Copy Share Image
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian 'invention' of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did,… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I could never have predicted the invention of streaming, the rerelease of the show Gilmore Girls on Netflix, and that people still… — Lauren Graham Copy Share Image
Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward… — Chester Carlson Copy Share Image
Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition… — Marleen S. Barr 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
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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