Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
“Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.” — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected… — Samuel D. Warren Copy Share Image
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The invention progress is tough sometimes. When I first choreographed the Drunken Master in the past with Jackie Chan, I spent months… — Yuen Woo-ping Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I had entered the Green [of Glasgow] by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street—had passed the old washing-house. I was… — James Watt Copy Share Image
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition… — Marleen S. Barr Copy Share Image
Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward… — Chester Carlson Copy Share Image
Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. — Judith Schaechter Copy Share Image
Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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