listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the… — Emile Berliner Copy Share Image
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I'm never proud of myself. No. People are always proud of me, but I think people can always be greater than me.… — Toots Hibbert Copy Share Image
Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
I don't think generally speaking, there are a lot of innovators and inventors. Many of the designers take what exists already and… — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions,… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
