A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits. — Tomas Luis de Victoria Copy Share Image
One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.~ — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Do not allow anyone to tell you what kind of a person you are inside except God himself, for every inventor knows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention. — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that… — Vivianne Crowley Copy Share Image
During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Wozniak would be the gentle wizard coming up with a neat invention that he would have been happy just to give away,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as… — Herbert Boyer Copy Share Image
I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not… — Ralph W. Gerard Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
