Ingenious Quotes

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Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves… — Paul Davies
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. — Henry Ward Beecher
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this… — Carl von Clausewitz
When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions… — John Scalzi
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit… — Ben Katchor
Disability is an art - an ingenious way to live. — Neil Marcus
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or… — M. G. Vassanji
ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would… — Ambrose Bierce
To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind… — Joseph Wood Krutch
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. — Joseph Lancaster
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose. — Paul Davies
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I… — Shan Sa
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival. — Michael O'Brien
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. — Niklaus Wirth
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. — Ambrose Bierce
We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application. — Richard M. Weaver
An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive. — Michael Medved

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