Invention Quotes

• One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

  

  Caryl Rivers
  • Political
  • Engineering
  • Century

• We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Art
  • Memories
  • Habit

• All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Intuition
  • Instinct
  • Observation

• I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.

  

  Kathleen Rooney
  • Never
  • Trouble
  • Invention

• Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Needs
  • Books
  • Invention

• In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Enough

• Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Change
  • Nice
  • Fashion

• The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

  

  Augustus De Morgan
  • Imagination
  • Invention
  • Reasoning

• One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

  

  William Congreve
  • Age
  • Giving
  • Destruction

• 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
  • Mankind
  • Philosophical

• Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Invention

• 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
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

  

  Gerald Vizenor
  • Science
  • Justice
  • Diversity

• Contentment: The smother of invention.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Invention

• Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Ideas
  • Secret
  • Invention

• Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Philosophy
  • Changed
  • Birth

• I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  

  Gene Autry
  • Strong
  • Ambition
  • Winter

• And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Invention

• The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.

  

  Nicolas Cowan
  • Find
  • Difference
  • Invention

• A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Mother
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

  

  George Will
  • Important
  • Revolution
  • Invention

• No inspiration comes from nowhere. No invention is based on nothing. You always need to be tuned up and be ready to start receiving the energy you look for.

  

  Nikolay Semyonov
  • Energy
  • Inspiration
  • Receiving

• Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Learn
  • Invention
  • Artistry

• Interest is the invention of Satan.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Interest
  • Satan
  • Invention

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