An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly… — Pope Paul VI 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
Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great… — Erik Hersman Copy Share Image
The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted… — Henry John Stephen Smith 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 all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records,… — David Gerrold 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
We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from… — Takafumi Horie Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
