Invention Quotes
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation.
The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.
You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.
Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.