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In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of… — Murray Gell-Mann
Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon… — Mark Twain
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody… — Theodore Dreiser
Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our… — Matt Ridley
We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of… — Bruce Alberts
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood?… — Charles Lamb
God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having… — Jose Saramago
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. — James Reston
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy… — Bernard Lewis
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases… — Athanasius of Alexandria
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. — Henry Van Dyke
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. — Finley Peter Dunne
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the… — Roger Brooke Taney
The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements.… — Paul Carus
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages. — Cullen Murphy
There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have… — Demosthenes
The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities... Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they… — Hassan Nasrallah
I invented it, Bill made it famous. — David Bradley
Blessings on him, who invented sleep. — Miguel de Cervantes
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule

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