Inventing Quotes
196 quotes by 184 authors
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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
— Joseph Barbera
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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself…
— John le Carre
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The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.
— Donald Sadoway
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have…
— Lewis Mumford
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I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways…
— Christiaan Barnard
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The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of…
— Karl Popper
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed…
— Dan Barker
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If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with…
— C.S. Lewis
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One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
— Walter M. Fitch
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We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat…
— George W. Bush
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The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real…
— Francois Jacob
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Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this…
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by.…
— Euripides
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'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow…
— John Green
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The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem…
— Ralph Raico
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Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in…
— Richard Saul Wurman
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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
— Mark Twain
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,…
— Seneca the Younger
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Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking?…
— Greg Koukl
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually…
— Aisha Tyler
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