The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
For us, for me as national coach, the Nations League is a good invention. — Joachim Low Copy Share Image
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“What is it, you ask?" Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. "I haven't thought of a name yet.… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller 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
“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
I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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