From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
