I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for… — Frontinus Copy Share Image
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or… — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
