Ancient Quote by Viktor Schauberger

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

— Masha Gessen

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

— Anonymous

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

— William Shenstone

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

— Eli Whitney

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

— Francis Bacon

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

— Diane Setterfield

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to…

— James Rollins

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

— Robert Genn