A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant;… — Abraham Lincoln 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
Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in… — Edmund Fuller Copy Share Image
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Our first endeavors are purely instinctive prompting of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla:… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
You have to be logical and use international words so people can relate to reggae music. I'm the inventor of the word… — Toots Hibbert Copy Share Image
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
In the culture of America, in a free culture, you get what you celebrate. And in this culture, we have two obsessions,… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I'm never proud of myself. No. People are always proud of me, but I think people can always be greater than me.… — Toots Hibbert Copy Share Image
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the… — Emile Berliner Copy Share Image
I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I don't think generally speaking, there are a lot of innovators and inventors. Many of the designers take what exists already and… — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
