It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or… — John Major Copy Share Image
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice… — Socrates Copy Share Image
[A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative. — Braden Kelley Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
To me, Los Angeles was the invention of the suburb. They figured it out and perfected it and created a city that… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages. — David Altmejd Copy Share Image
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop… — James Naismith Copy Share Image
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials. — Ken Hakuta Copy Share Image
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt each… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself. — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts. — John Smith Copy Share Image
“It is clear to me that "religions" are the invention of man, and therefore exhibit all the strengths and weaknesses of human… — Ronald R. Cooke Copy Share Image
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The… — Vsevolod Meyerhold Copy Share Image
My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value… — Auguste Lumiere Copy Share Image
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