John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?". — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people. — Larry Page Copy Share Image
The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
