Able Quote by Isaac Newton

“One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the ‘not invented here’ syndrome, but…

— Paul M. Barrett

History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it's deliberately and maliciously factored into their…

— Hannah Fry

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

— Christopher Hitchens

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth…

— Eric Hoffer

Some people have a concept of design: that it should be without the maker. I have been educated in this way, the traditional way.…

— Marcel Wanders

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

— Judith Schaechter

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are…

— Steven Weinberg

You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to explain the…

— Richard Dawkins

The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of…

— George H. Smith

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

— Henry David Thoreau

Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual,…

— Bill Buxton

For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and…

— Wernher von Braun