quotes about Invention
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Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision...
-- Adolf Hitler -
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
-- Alanna Ubach -
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Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
-- Alexander Pope -
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
-- Alva Myrdal -
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
-- Amar BoseSource : "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.
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After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
-- Andrea PirloSource : "The Bandinis 2013: an utterly exhaustive review of the Serie A season" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2013.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
-- Angela Thirkell -
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Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
-- Ann Douglas -
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
-- Aristotle -
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret
-- Brian Selznick -
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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
-- Carl Menger -
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.
-- Carl Sagan -
The book is man's best invention so far.
-- Carolina Maria de JesusSource : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
-- Carolyn Wells -
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One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
-- Caryl RiversSource : Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England
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In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
-- Chiwetel Ejiofor -
A weak invention of the Enemy.
-- Colley CibberSource : Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.53
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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner -
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
-- Damien Hirst -
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
-- Daniel Webster -
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
-- David Cronenberg -
Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.
-- David Gordon GreenSource : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
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The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
-- Diodorus Siculus -
One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.
-- Edgar Degas -
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
-- Edwin Land -
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Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
-- Edwin Percy WhippleSource : Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74
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An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,
-- Eli Whitney -
Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!
-- Ellen Kushner -
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
-- Elsa Maxwell -
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
-- Erica Jong -
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions
-- Ethel MermanSource : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry
-- Ezra Pound -
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
-- Frances E. Willard -
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
-- Fridtjof Nansen -
Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come...
-- Gautama Buddha -
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Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
-- Gene Wilder -
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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Necessity, the mother of invention.
-- George FarquharSource : "The Twin Rivals". Book by George Farquhar, 1702.
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The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
-- George Wald -
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
-- Gustav Mahler -
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Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.
-- Guy Deutscher -
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
-- H. L. Mencken -
The environment as we perceive it is our invention,
-- Heinz von FoersterSource : Heinz von Foerster (2007). “Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition”, p.212, Springer Science & Business Media
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There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
-- Helen Frankenthaler -
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The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
-- Henri Matisse -
Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.
-- Henry FuseliSource : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).
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Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
-- Henry Tizard -
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.
-- Hudson Maxim -
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To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
-- Hugh Jackman -
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
-- Ignazio Silone -
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind
-- Isaac Asimov -
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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
-- James Dyson -
I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
-- James Dyson -
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
-- James Dyson -
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.
-- James Naismith -
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
-- James Russell Lowell -
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
-- James Russell Lowell -
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
-- Jared Diamond -
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... inventions and purely human institutions.
-- Jean Meslier -
To understand is to invent.
-- Jean PiagetSource : Jean Piaget (1977). “Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of Knowledge”
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
-- Jeff Bezos -
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
-- Jeff Bezos -
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Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
-- Jeff Bezos -
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
-- John Banville -
The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.
-- John Banville -
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions
-- John Calvin -
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
-- John GalsworthySource : John Galsworthy (2016). “The Man of Property”, p.6, Open Road Media
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
-- John Keats -
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
-- John Marsden -
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
-- John Philpot Curran -
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
-- John Stuart Mill -
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
-- Josef Albers -
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Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
-- Joseph ConradSource : Some Reminiscences ch. 1 (1912)
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There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention...
-- Joshua ReynoldsSource : Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.159
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Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.
-- Judith Schaechter -
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All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
-- Karl Marx -
I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
-- Karlheinz Stockhausen -
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.
-- Kathy LetteSource : Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House
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No bra,†he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.
-- Larissa Ione -