Quotes and Sayings 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 -
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 -
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 Bose -
After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
-- Andrea Pirlo -
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
-- Angela Thirkell -
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 -
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 -
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 Jesus -
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
-- Carolyn Wells -
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
-- Caryl Rivers -
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
-- Chiwetel Ejiofor -
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner -
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
