War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth -… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases… — James Burke Copy Share Image
Without question the AK-47 was a remarkable invention, and not just because it works so well, or because it changed how wars… — C. J. Chivers 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
The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“Power as a beneficial tool for aspiring achievers is primarily made up into four folds; 1. Power to control emotions, 2. Power… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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
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
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront… — Mike A. Males Copy Share Image
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention. — Carisa Bianchi Copy Share Image
“With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened. — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Never sacrifice with your needs, cause needs are the mother of invention. — Chintan Joshi Copy Share Image
