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Quotes About Invention

He's got all sorts of strange ideas to catch up on.
~ Stephen King
Perhaps it wasn't all Freud after all. Perhaps a large part of it had to do with the invention of the electric light, which had killed the shadows in men's minds much more effectively than a stake through a vampire's heart—and less messily, too.
~ Stephen King
The only thing man has never done is what he hasn't thought about.
~ Richmond Akhigbe
I like engineering, but I love the creative input.
~ John Dykstra
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
~ Alain Badiou
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
~ Johnny Carson
Job understood that he was nothing more than God's invention and so too was his suffering
~ Johnny Rich
Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons .
~ Jojo Moyes
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
~ Jon Krakauer
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
~ Jonathan Davis
A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, "Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think would happen if they dropped it?
~ Jonathan Glover
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?
~ Jonathan Haidt
Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal language?a pointless and isolating task if there is no community with whom to speak.
~ Jonathan Haidt
We find, over time, the deepness of a thing. And if we fail to find it, then we invent it, to show ourselves we are not shallow.
~ Jonathan Lee
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
~ Jonathan Swift
What some invent the rest enlarge.
~ Jonathan Swift
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
~ Jonathan Swift
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
~ Jonathan Swift
Lord, I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing!
~ Jonathan Swift
Books, the children of the brain.
~ Jonathan Swift
Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.
~ Emma Thompson
La ciudad, lo mismo que el bosque, no tiene espíritu. Ese es un invento de los poetas, una prosopopeya voluntaria que venimos repitiendo desde hace más de veinte siglos y que se ha convertido en una verdad de primer orden. (148)
~ Ena Lucía Portela
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