Invention Quotes
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
William O. Douglas -
Conscience is a Jewish invention.
Adolf Hitler
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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
Virginia Woolf -
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
John Tillotson -
The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.
Thorsten Heins -
Necessity is literally the mother of invention.
Plato -
The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
Nick Bostrom -
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
Alex Faickney Osborn -
That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."
Bobcat Goldthwait -
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
Humphrey Carpenter -
Despite the invention of time machines, we keep being linear.
Amy King -
Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.
Adam Hart-Davis -
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
Plato
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Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.
Adolf Hitler -
It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.
will.i.am -
Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.
Etgar Keret -
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
George Bernard Shaw -
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.
William Shakespeare -
It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.
George Sarton
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone -
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
Nicolas Berggruen -
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.
Willis R. Whitney -
Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
George Bernard Shaw