Best Invention Lines
1021 Invention quotes by 720 unique authors
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All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
— Reginald Fessenden
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving…
— Humphry Davy
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The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly…
— Charles Darwin
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I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
— Julia Child
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments…
— Greil Marcus
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Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
— Albert Einstein
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The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
— John Banville
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The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
— Unknown Author
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or…
— Wendell Phillips
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds -…
— David Crystal
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In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst…
— Bob Blumer
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
— Ernest Dimnet
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For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
— Henry George
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It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that…
— Thomas A. Edison
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It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world…
— Alfred Tarski
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I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont
— Alberto Santos-Dumont
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Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
— Frontinus
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have…
— John Berger
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To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism.…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot…
— Richard Branson
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Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.
— Jonathan Sacks
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In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed…
— Dean Kamen
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