Best Invention Words
1021 Invention quotes by 720 unique authors
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All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility…
— Joline Godfrey
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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
— John Zachary Young
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.
— James Naismith
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The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.
— Carl Van Vechten
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The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
— Paul Virilio
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Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental…
— Samuel D. Warren
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[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought…
— Carl Mitcham
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To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it…
— Herbert York
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We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but…
— John Ambrose Fleming
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If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
— Angela Thirkell
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Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product…
— Edwin Howard Armstrong
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Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
— Arthur M. Wellington
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As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful…
— Nicolaas Bloembergen
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Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis…
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In…
— James Hutton
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The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development…
— Unknown Author
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The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
— Augustus De Morgan
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
— Benjamin Franklin
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There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of…
— M.C. Escher
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
— Thorstein Veblen
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The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the…
— Jonathan Swift
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