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
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation… — Robert Henry Thurston Copy Share Image
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details. — Richard Gurley Drew Copy Share Image
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
I heard "romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England," and I was like, "You have got to be… — Tanya Wexler Copy Share Image
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my… — Nikola Tesla 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
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made… — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
