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- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Vanna Bonta
- It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that… — Thomas Paine
- In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey
- Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your… — Vincent McNabb
- Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — 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… — Christopher Hitchens
- All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. — John Marsden