Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The church is like any large corporation in one respect. In its early days, either the early church or the early years… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety… — King C. Gillette Copy Share Image
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically… — William James Copy Share Image
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
