Invention Quotes
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For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.
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Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own 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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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.
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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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Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
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Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
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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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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
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The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg," and then someone else said "No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing."
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Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.
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Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.
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History is the invention of historians.
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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
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I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.
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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.
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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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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.
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Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.
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An engineer's invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
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One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
