Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
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Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is… — John Montgomery Ward Copy Share Image
I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine,… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
She [my mother] said, "You are fiercely protective of your inventions because you are your fans." She helped me understand my own… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The criminalization of file sharing is pathetic. It's so pathetic, it's almost funny. Imagine if the radio people would have lobbied for… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made… — Nobuyoshi Araki Copy Share Image
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
Pandemic-proof means the mobile phone has to be used and it has to be used in such a positive way that your… — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The invention progress is tough sometimes. When I first choreographed the Drunken Master in the past with Jackie Chan, I spent months… — Yuen Woo-ping Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
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