Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.” — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system… — Ernst Alexanderson Copy Share Image
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to… — Nikolay Semyonov Copy Share Image
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or… — Reggie White Copy Share Image
Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks.… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for… — Willis R. Whitney Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
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