Break Quote by Ernest Hemingway

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something…

— Elif Batuman

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to…

— John H. Lienhard

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

— Ray Dolby

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

— John Wyndham

To invent is to discern, to choose.

— Henri Poincare

We learn more when we are compelled to invent.

— Jean Piaget

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being…

— Eli Broad

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

— Albert Einstein

I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical…

— Paul Flory

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

— Thomas A. Edison