Invention Quotes

Invention Quote of the day

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

God is Man's greatest invention

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

To understand is to invent.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.