We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone -… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I’d love to see: A vending machine that dispenses cats for petting on your lunch break. Instead of money, the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. — David Hanson Copy Share Image
If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from… — Takafumi Horie Copy Share Image
We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable… — Joseph Kosuth Copy Share Image
One of the ways that your project, your personal healing, or your social invention can change the world is through story. But… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
“Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing… — Steve Krug Copy Share Image
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution --… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates… — Ziya Tong Copy Share Image
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically… — William James Copy Share Image
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane)… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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