Invention Quotes
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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
Mikhail Kalashnikov -
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.
Elihu Thomson
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The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.
Kate Wilhelm -
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
Ivar Giaever -
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.
Michel Gondry -
Life is composed of different inventions.
Mikhail Kalashnikov -
Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
George Bernard Shaw -
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
Caryl Rivers
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Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.
Ed Askew -
History is the invention of historians.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Ernest Hemingway -
I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.
Kathleen Rooney -
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
William Blake -
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
George Wald
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Interest is the invention of Satan.
Thomas A. Edison -
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.
Elihu Thomson -
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible.
Nicolaas Bloembergen -
Contentment: The smother of invention.
Ethel Watts Mumford -
In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold.
Charles Holland Duell -
Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
Red Smith
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According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
Etgar Keret -
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.
Nick Bostrom -
The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.
Augustus De Morgan