The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again… — George Will Copy Share Image
The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his… — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able… — Nathan Milstein Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak 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
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it… — James E. Burke Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
For us, for me as national coach, the Nations League is a good invention. — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence. — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
“Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living. — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. — Frontinus Copy Share Image
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
