Invention Quotes - Page 5

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

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power.

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.

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

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.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

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

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

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

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.