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I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the… — Thomas A. Edison
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? — Benjamin Disraeli
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition… — Reginald Fessenden
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that… — Thomas Huxley
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was… — Aristotle
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to… — Willis R. Whitney
...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my… — Henry Ford
Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions. — Winston Churchill
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but… — Karl Popper
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which… — Rosalind Franklin
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do not] share the… — Louis Pasteur
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion… — John Owen
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the… — Arthur C. Clarke
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveris.… — Abraham Lincoln
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
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. — Lewis Thomas
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work… — Kurt Vonnegut
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it… — Charlie Munger
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot… — Bell Hooks
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet. — H. L. Mencken
The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own… — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

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