Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

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

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

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

Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

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.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

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.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.