Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The formation of scales and of the web of harmony is a product of artistic invention, and is in no way given… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in… — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Copy Share Image
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even… — Amanda Marcotte Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
History repeats itself again I guess the rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don’t innovate at… — Thorsten Heins Copy Share Image
Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,… — Mark Twain 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
A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
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