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title: "Best Invention Quotes"
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> [Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cornelia-otis-skinner/women-s-virtue-is-man-s-greatest-invention/)

[Cornelia Otis Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cornelia-otis-skinner/)

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> [Necessity is the mother of invention](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-caleb-colton/where-we-cannot-invent-we-may-at-least-improve/)

[Charles Caleb Colton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-caleb-colton/)

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> [Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-metcalfe/invention-is-a-flower-innovation-is-a-weed/)

[Robert Metcalfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-metcalfe/)

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> [Afternoon classes - that evil invention!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gresham-machen/afternoon-classes-that-evil-invention/)

[John Gresham Machen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gresham-machen/)

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> [The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-saroyan/the-bicycle-is-the-noblest-invention-of-mankind/)

[William Saroyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-saroyan/)

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> [“Grandchildren are the best Invention since Apples”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-king/grandchildren-are-the-best-invention-since-apples/)

[Carrie King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-king/)

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> [Necessity is literally the mother of invention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/necessity-is-literally-the-mother-of-invention/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [Dont make haste because it is the invention of the devil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikrant-parsai/dont-make-haste-because-it-is-the-invention-of-the-devil/)

[Vikrant Parsai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vikrant-parsai/)

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> [Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-clancy/man-is-a-creature-of-hope-and-invention-both-of-which-belie-the-idea/)

[Tom Clancy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-clancy/)

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> [Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horace-walpole/exercise-is-the-worst-thing-in-the-world-and-as-bad-an-invention-as/)

[Horace Walpole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horace-walpole/)

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> [“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dava-sobel/he-wrested-the-world-s-whereabouts-from-the-stars-and-locked-the/)

[Dava Sobel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dava-sobel/)

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> [No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hopper/no-amount-of-skillful-invention-can-replace-the-essential-element-of/)

[Edward Hopper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hopper/)

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> [In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-vargas-llosa/in-general-i-think-my-freedom-of-invention-is-not-limited-when-i-use/)

[Mario Vargas Llosa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-vargas-llosa/)

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> [A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-story/a-new-invention-to-poison-people-is-not-a-patentable-invention/)

[Joseph Story](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-story/)

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> [The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-franklin/the-greatest-inventions-are-those-inquiries-which-tend-to-increase/)

[Benjamin Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin/)

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> [“The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernst-alexanderson/the-patent-system-was-established-i-believe-to-protect-the-lone/)

[Ernst Alexanderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernst-alexanderson/)

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> [ \[W\]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/w-e-pity-our-fathers-for-dying-before-steam-and-galvanism-sulphuric/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikolay-semyonov/no-inspiration-comes-from-nowhere-no-invention-is-based-on-nothing/)

[Nikolay Semyonov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikolay-semyonov/)

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> [Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-simmons/sugar-free-ice-pops-are-an-invention-of-god-they-hardly-have-any/)

[Gene Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-simmons/)

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> [great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-charles/great-inventors-and-discoverers-seem-to-have-made-their-discoveries/)

[Elizabeth Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-charles/)

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> [Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/men-are-rather-beholden-generally-to-chance-or-anything-else-than-to/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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> [ When Lord Kelvin was in this country \[U.S.\], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-stannard-baker/when-lord-kelvin-was-in-this-country-u-s-he-said-that-nothing/)

[Ray Stannard Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-stannard-baker/)

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> [One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-miller/one-can-be-absolutely-truthful-and-sincere-even-though-admittedly-the-2/)

[Henry Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-miller/)

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> [The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-dotcom/the-internet-is-this-whole-new-world-that-allows-everyone-to/)

[Kim Dotcom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-dotcom/)

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> [In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-gladwell/in-order-to-get-one-of-the-greatest-inventions-of-the-modern-age-in/)

[Malcolm Gladwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-gladwell/)

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> [When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reggie-white/when-you-look-at-the-asians-the-asian-is-very-gifted-in-creation/)

[Reggie White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reggie-white/)

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> [Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harper-lee/dill-was-off-again-beautiful-things-floated-around-in-his-dreamy-head/)

[Harper Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harper-lee/)

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> [I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pinchas-lapide/i-accept-the-resurrection-of-easter-sunday-not-as-an-invention-of-the/)

[Pinchas Lapide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pinchas-lapide/)

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> [When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodhi-may/when-people-talk-about-televisual-phenomena-such-as-big-brother-i/)

[Jodhi May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodhi-may/)

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> [Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-copperfield/like-in-comedy-you-know-the-names-of-the-people-who-steal-things-that/)

[David Copperfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-copperfield/)

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> [Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/television-was-the-most-revolutionary-event-of-the-century-its/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

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> [The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-smith/the-man-whose-whole-life-is-spent-in-performing-a-few-simple/)

[Adam Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-smith/)

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> [An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/an-enormous-amount-of-modern-ingenuity-is-expended-on-finding/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I was in the hospital and I was paralyzed and I went through all of these things. I've had all of these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-toltz/i-was-in-the-hospital-and-i-was-paralyzed-and-i-went-through-all-of/)

[Steve Toltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-toltz/)

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> [I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-thurman/i-say-that-creeds-dogmas-and-theologies-are-inventions-of-the-mind-it/)

[Howard Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-thurman/)

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> [Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willis-r-whitney/necessity-is-not-the-mother-of-invention-knowledge-and-experiment-are/)

[Willis R. Whitney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willis-r-whitney/)

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> [It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/waldemar-kaempffert/it-may-be-that-the-invention-of-the-aeroplane-flying-machine-will-be/)

[Waldemar Kaempffert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/waldemar-kaempffert/)

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> [A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/a-book-is-made-from-a-tree-it-is-an-assemblage-of-flat-flexible-parts/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-taylor-gatto/a-lot-of-the-strings-that-hold-us-like-puppets-are-really-inventions/)

[John Taylor Gatto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-taylor-gatto/)

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                        "text": "Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.",
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                        "text": "It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.",
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