Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the… — Hugh Nibley 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
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first,… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their… — Steven Strogatz Copy Share Image
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
“[The screw machine] was on the principle of the gauge or sliding lathe now in every workshop throughout the world; the perfection… — David Wilkinson 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
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
