Invention Quotes · Page 16

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

— Victor Hugo

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

— Carl Van Vechten

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

— Henry Tizard

Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory…

— Philip Slater

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

— Andrea Pirlo

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and…

— J. K. Rowling

One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But…

— Charles Eisenstein

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all…

— Anonymous

I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense…

— Howard Thurman

We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air…

— Peter Medawar

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

— John Banville

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the…

— Anonymous

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human…

— Gloria Steinem

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

— George Bernard Shaw

Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or…

— Charles Thomas Newton

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up…

— Anne Tyler

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

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

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter,…

— Joshua Foer

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge…

— Isaac D'Israeli

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in…

— Danny Hillis

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two…

— William McDonough

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

— Alex Chiu