Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden'… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it.… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Not only has photography so thoroughly saturated our visual environment as to make the invention of visual images seem archaic, but it… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time… — Jacob Needleman 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
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
“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the… — Vaclav Smil 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
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
“They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. It is just as well to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden 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
The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works.… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
