I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need. — Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory. — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century. — Tom Lenk Copy Share Image
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. — John Wagner Copy Share Image
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“And the dizzying arsenal of our modern technology is a leap in innovation perhaps matched in the entire history of life only… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until… — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
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