Human Invention Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. — John Banville
All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have… — John Berger
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human… — Walter Scott
So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big… — John Marsden
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for… — Vanna Bonta
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human. — Thomas Paine
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it… — John Dewey
Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you… — Vincent McNabb
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a… — Robert M. Pirsig
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it… — Christopher Hitchens
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. — John Marsden
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to… — Oliver Sacks
No bra,â€ he said against her mouth. â€œThank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever. — Larissa Ione
Money is only a human invention. — Vanna Bonta
With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine… — James Gleick
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals… — Jared Diamond
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but… — Andrew O'Hagan
(On sleep) Is it just the interval of life rudely interrupted by the static of having to please the boss at home or the one… — Martin Dansky

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