Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.~ — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion. — Paul Winchell Copy Share Image
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine 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
“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works.… — Boyan Slat 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
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
For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the… — Kenneth Keniston 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
For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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