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
“If the successor does better than the ancestor world remembers the successor, like the maker of a car, is still remembered but… — Amit Kalantri 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
[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
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
The flood of photos sweeps away the dams of memory. Never before has a period known so little about itself. In the… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more… — Herbert York Copy Share Image
I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now… — Dorothy West 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
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
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is something about my mother that drives her critics slightly potty, so they resort to wild invention to get at her. — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention. — Barry Diller 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
I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Do not allow anyone to tell you what kind of a person you are inside except God himself, for every inventor knows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me;… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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