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title: "Great Invention Quotations"
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> [An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-farb/an-invention-or-new-combination-can-be-successful-only-if-all-if-the/)

[Peter Farb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-farb/)

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> [Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/great-triumphs-of-engineering-genius-the-locomotive-the-truss-bridge/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lukas-foss/it-is-obvious-that-anything-a-scientist-discovers-or-invents-is-based/)

[Lukas Foss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lukas-foss/)

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> [The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-list/the-more-a-person-learns-how-to-use-the-forces-of-nature-for-his-own/)

[Friedrich List](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-list/)

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> [Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-vizenor/race-is-an-invention-not-a-noticeable-genetic-presence-and-cultural/)

[Gerald Vizenor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-vizenor/)

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> [In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josef-albers/in-my-basic-courses-i-have-always-tried-to-develop-discovery-and/)

[Josef Albers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josef-albers/)

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> [In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/northrop-frye/in-our-day-the-conventional-element-in-literature-is-elaborately/)

[Northrop Frye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/northrop-frye/)

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> [Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robbe-grillet/memory-belongs-to-the-imagination-human-memory-is-not-like-a-computer/)

[Alain Robbe-Grillet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-robbe-grillet/)

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> [“We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-jorash/we-re-all-innately-creative-i-m-not-bringing-anything-magical-to-it/)

[James Jorash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-jorash/)

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> [The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/the-not-knowing-is-crucial-to-art-is-what-permits-art-to-be-made/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

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> [It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/conan-o-brien/it-is-our-failure-to-become-our-perceived-ideal-that-ultimately/)

[Conan O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/conan-o-brien/)

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> [There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hooke/there-is-scarce-any-one-invention-which-this-nation-has-produced-in/)

[Robert Hooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hooke/)

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> [A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-miller/a-genuine-invention-in-the-realm-of-ideas-must-first-emerge-as-an/)

[Arthur Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-miller/)

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> [Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/perhaps-scientists-have-been-the-most-international-of-all/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kenneth-galbraith/financial-operations-do-not-lend-themselves-to-innovation-what-is/)

[John Kenneth Galbraith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kenneth-galbraith/)

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> [I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-burns/i-m-onstage-for-an-hour-i-do-an-hour-of-stand-up-actually-i-do-10/)

[George Burns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-burns/)

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> [I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alanna-ubach/i-ve-never-had-plastic-surgery-but-if-they-made-a-new-invention-for/)

[Alanna Ubach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alanna-ubach/)

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> [The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kurlansky/the-inventors-we-remember-didn-t-invent-anything-they-re-the-people/)

[Mark Kurlansky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kurlansky/)

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> [The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-gates/the-next-big-invention-that-will-change-the-way-we-live-should-be/)

[Bill Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-gates/)

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> [A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emile-m-cioran/a-sudden-silence-in-the-middle-of-a-conversation-suddenly-brings-us/)

[Emile M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emile-m-cioran/)

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> [The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-whitmore/the-dishwasher-is-the-best-invention-in-the-world-i-didn-t-grow-up/)

[Laura Whitmore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-whitmore/)

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> [But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-byron/but-i-hate-things-all-fiction-there-should-always-be-some-foundation/)

[Lord Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-byron/)

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> [Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-askew/music-and-art-are-two-very-different-activities-for-me-however-the/)

[Ed Askew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-askew/)

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> [It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-winchell/it-is-my-contention-that-no-other-invention-of-man-has-brought/)

[Paul Winchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-winchell/)

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> [Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/invention-is-the-most-important-product-of-man-s-creative-brain-the/)

[Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/)

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> [“We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-lilly/we-are-not-creators-only-combiners-of-the-created-invention-isn-t/)

[Ryan Lilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-lilly/)

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> [No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-rowe-price-jr/no-one-can-see-ahead-three-years-let-alone-five-or-ten-competition/)

[Thomas Rowe Price, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-rowe-price-jr/)

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> [One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/one-of-the-most-difficult-tasks-men-can-perform-however-much-others/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-kamen/what-really-makes-it-an-invention-is-that-someone-decides-not-to/)

[Dean Kamen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-kamen/)

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> [Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mallory-ortberg/anyone-who-wants-to-pretend-that-your-huntington-s-disease-is-an/)

[Mallory Ortberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mallory-ortberg/)

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> [The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pliny-the-elder/the-invention-of-money-opened-a-new-field-to-human-avarice-by-giving/)

[Pliny the Elder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pliny-the-elder/)

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> [Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-ron-hubbard/dianetics-is-a-milestone-for-man-comparable-to-his-discovery-of-fire/)

[L. Ron Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-ron-hubbard/)

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> [Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/postcolonialism-is-the-invention-of-some-rich-guys-from-india-who-saw/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

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> [ They \[twin beds\] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/they-twin-beds-are-the-most-stupid-the-most-perfidious-and-the-most/)

[Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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> [Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sydney-smith/correspondences-are-like-small-clothes-before-the-invention-of/)

[Sydney Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sydney-smith/)

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> [I think the inner person is the most important… I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-child/i-think-the-inner-person-is-the-most-important-i-would-like-to-see-an/)

[Julia Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-child/)

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> [I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-tried-to-think-about-other-things-i-tried-to-invent-optimistic/)

[Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/)

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> [You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-vivekananda/you-of-the-west-are-practical-in-business-practical-in-great/)

[Swami Vivekananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-vivekananda/)

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> [Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/imagination-does-not-enable-us-to-invent-as-many-different/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/we-had-a-rule-in-tibet-that-anyone-proposing-a-new-invention-had-to/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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