Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity. — Momofuku Ando Copy Share Image
“Invention leads to discovery.clothing is something that we invented so that in span of time we could discover it was of no… — Aashu Copy Share Image
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the… — Jim Hunt Copy Share Image
Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.” — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Touring is the best invention of all time, so if I have to suffer a little bit of payback for having all… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. — Jenna Black Copy Share Image
I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
