If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell 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 real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age” — David von Drehle Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company… — Jack Welch 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
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
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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
If Necessity Is the Mother of Invention then Frustration is Father Of Creativity.. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
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