Quotes About Invention

Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.

His deepest fear was that its invention would inspire a deadly nuclear arms race between the West and the Soviet Union. To prevent this, he insisted, it was imperative that the Russians be told about the existence of the bomb project, and be assured that it was no threat to them.

The deviant and the conformist...are creatures of the same culture, inventions of the same imagination.

To be innovative, you have to be different. - Kailin Gow, STEM Stage Speech

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

twenty percent of all the electricity in the U.S. comes from nuclear energy. That is thanks to Dr. Henry T. Sampson, who invented the gamma electric cell, which makes it possible to convert nuclear radiation into electricity.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

If I need something, I'll invent it.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

I don't think you can be taught how to make art. You can be coached, but on a fundamental level you have to figure it out for yourself. You have to learn how your own mind works, figure out your own relationship to the art; you essentially have to invent it completely for yourself.

I have the power to write these books where I invent characters that I really like, and it gets to come out the way they want it to come out, and I get to make it happen.