Invention Quotes · Page 10

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most…

— Ben Jonson

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

— Frans de Waal

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was…

— Robert Moog

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

Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the…

— Brian Solis

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to…

— James Joseph Sylvester

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

— John Bruton

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

— Kurt Vonnegut

My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give…

— Antonin Dvorak

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

— Hillary Clinton

“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements,…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it…

— Thomas A. Edison

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

— Michel Foucault

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

— Harold Bloom

Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic…

— Adolf Hitler

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted…

— James Rowland Angell

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

— John B. S. Haldane

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Most shoes are shaped as if feet were made for shoes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

— Nicholas Murray Butler

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as…

— Hedda Hopper

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as…

— Lewis Mumford

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was…

— Jane Swisshelm

Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction…

— Zygmunt Bauman