We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to…

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

— Alfred Aho

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways…

— Alan Bradley

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin…

— Gene Wolfe

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

— Albert Einstein

Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of…

— Chester Carlson

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing…

— Henry Miller

With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by…

— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for…

— Frederick Philip Grove

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay…

— Audre Lorde

The scientific method ... is nothing but the exclusion of subjective opinions as far as possible, by the devising of experiments where observation can…

— Gavin de Beer

It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves…

— Ada Lovelace

Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against it.

— John of Kronstadt

Adults devise a plan and follow it, children do what feels good.

— Dave Ramsey