The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. — Nikola Tesla 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
Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me;… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think… — Zhou Qunfei Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife — Jonathan Schattke Copy Share Image
We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry;… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything… — Sophie Hunger Copy Share Image
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. — Carl Menger Copy Share Image
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . . — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it. — Reinhard Bonnke 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