Top 25 Invention Quotes of 270 - Page 7

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Confused, Imagination, Invention

Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.53, Harvard University Press

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

Henri Matisse

Peculiar, Harmony, Invention

Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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

Ha-Joon Chang

Important Events, Printing, Invention

"Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

George Takei

Innovation, Problem, Invention

Source: progressive.org

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men, Heaven, Invention

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Men, Invention

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Francis Bacon

Science, Invention, Knows

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.183

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Edgar Degas

Invention, Tyranny, Recollection

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

Demetri Martin

Thinking, Invention, All Time

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

David Cronenberg

Ideas, Revolution, Invention

A weak invention of the Enemy.

Colley Cibber

Enemy, Weak, Invention

Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.53

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

Aulus Persius Flaccus

Teacher, Art, Invention

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Alva Myrdal

Communication, Discovery, Invention

Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Agatha Christie

Simple, Achievement, Great Inventions

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Abraham Lincoln

Men, May, Invention

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

Yann Martel

Mother, Invention, Very True

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

Thomas Paine

Men, Creation, Invention

Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.411, e-artnow