Invention Quotes - Page 6

Nor age so eat up my invention.

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

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.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Want is the mistress of invention

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

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.

Invention breeds invention.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

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.

History is the invention of historians.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

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

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.