One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits. — Tomas Luis de Victoria Copy Share Image
I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse -… — Christien Meindertsma Copy Share Image
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. It is just as well to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at… — Elihu Thomson 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
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
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