Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. — Carl Menger Copy Share Image
If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Best of all, persons can sometimes be app-transcendent: making dramatic progress or discoveries, without any dependence on any app. In this context,… — Howard Gardner 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
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. — David Rockefeller 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
“Power as a beneficial tool for aspiring achievers is primarily made up into four folds; 1. Power to control emotions, 2. Power… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention. — Bernard Malamud 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
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
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s. — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research. — Arthur E. Kennelly Copy Share Image