Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever.… — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. — David Hanson Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is… — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion.… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr 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
And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers,… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
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