One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word. — June Millington Copy Share Image
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“If the successor does better than the ancestor world remembers the successor, like the maker of a car, is still remembered but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. It is just as well to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works.… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
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