Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process,… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness. — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor Copy Share Image
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
It is by losing ourselves in inquiry, creation & craft that we become something. Civilization is a continual gift of spirit: inventions,… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly… — Rick Moranis 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
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able… — Nathan Milstein Copy Share Image
The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Every invention was borne out of impossible. So impossible does not exist in the world of development. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
