Best Invention Quotes
1021 Invention quotes by 720 unique authors
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Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
— Margaret Fuller
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…
— Carl Sagan
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring…
— Unknown Author
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I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of…
— Pinchas Lapide
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A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.
— H. L. Mencken
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster…
— Lewis Mumford
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The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing…
— Rupert Murdoch
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention…
— Northrop Frye
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music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can…
— Joshua Reynolds
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We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually…
— Joshua Foer
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The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
— Robert Morley
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Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book.
— Peter Drucker
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As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far…
— H. L. Mencken
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater…
— Alistair Cooke
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Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.
— Bob Hope
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It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.
— Carl Sagan
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Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family,…
— Takafumi Horie
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they…
— William Shakespeare
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Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.…
— Clifford Stoll
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
— Thomas A. Edison
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as…
— Eric Hoffer
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Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at…
— Bill Bryson
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Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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