Invention Quotes

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

God is Man's greatest invention

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

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

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

To understand is to invent.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Basketball is a pure invention.

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

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

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Architecture is invention.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.