Invention Quotes
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
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!
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
