Ability Quote by Robert E. Ornstein

“All human societies contain inventive people. It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do…

— Jared Diamond

Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem…

— Christiana Figueres

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So,…

— Maya Angelou

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

— Cher

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 discern, to choose.

— Henri Poincare

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

— Douglas Lenat

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

— Francis Bacon

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

— Whitney M. Young

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

— Bill Gates

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

— Charles Kettering

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is…

— Nikola Tesla