Invention Quotes
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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
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Life is composed of different inventions.
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Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
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Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero.
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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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.
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It was the perfect invention. It was simple to implement the technology, but it brought an old idea (auctions) into a new domain (the Internet).
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Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
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You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.
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A bad memory is the mother of invention.
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My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He can’t transform negatives into positives. He can’t open his world to creativity and invention, or even progress.
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Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.
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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.
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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.
