The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more…

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“He created us through the long and complex process of Natural and Sexual Selection, which is none other than His ingenious device for instilling…

— Margaret Atwood

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

— Anonymous

Being able to see and recombine existing assets and know-how in new ways allows us to take an 'ingenious approach to innovation' - one…

— Cathy Engelbert

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden…

— Robert Moog

“The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious.” Back”

— Aldous Huxley

Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of…

— Bruce Lee

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.

— Bertrand Russell

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…

— H. G. Wells

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book…

— Samuel Pepys

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

— Homer

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who…

— Michael Pollan