Invention Quotes

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

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.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

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.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

I just realized that with the invention of the iPhone and others you now get to see the top of people's heads.

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Hollywood is a land of self-invention.

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on and on. It was my hobby, my pastime, and my obsession for several years.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.