I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All of modern acting comes from Stanislavski, who was the Russian partner to Chekhov. When Chekhov was writing his plays, Stanislavski was… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories,… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors,… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage,… — Francisco Goya 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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