Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

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

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

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

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

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

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

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

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

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.

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.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

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

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

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.

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

A weak invention of the Enemy.

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.

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.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

Creativity is an integral part of our personality.

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

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

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

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

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.

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

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