It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
I think crossing into the digital age is the big move for the industry. I think it will be the biggest thing… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real… — Rosalind Franklin Copy Share Image
I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention… — Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
I like it when you reach into a vending machine to grab your candy bar, and that flap goes up to block… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image