All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things,… — Art Bell Copy Share Image
I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
“Power as a beneficial tool for aspiring achievers is primarily made up into four folds; 1. Power to control emotions, 2. Power… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery,… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized… — Plato Copy Share Image
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Invention: I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers,… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
