Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

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.

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

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.

A weak invention of the Enemy.

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

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

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.

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

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.

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Creativity is an integral part of our personality.

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

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

I could never have predicted the invention of streaming, the rerelease of the show Gilmore Girls on Netflix, and that people still wanted to hear about it. I do love how we came back to it, but it was never up to me. It won't be up to me this time, either. If it ended there, I would be sad, but I also like what we did.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

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

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

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

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

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.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.