Invention Quotes
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
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.
There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.
There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
