I’ve turned down too many gods to Start inventing my own…

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,…

— Gary Hamel

“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up…

— Denis Parsons Burkitt

Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever…

— Dan Barker

It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process…

— Richard Dawkins

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology…

— Ann Douglas

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

— David Copperfield

“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole…

— John Steinbeck

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding…

— Jean Piaget

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same…

— Brittany Murphy

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

— Mitchel Resnick