The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
“Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“To create truly novel breakthrough innovations, you must discard your hard-held beliefs.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era. — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need. — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?” — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle. — Charlie Brooker 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
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again… — George Will Copy Share Image
