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Quotes About Invention

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
~ Kary Mullis
Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind. Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my sould holds for you.
~ Kassandra Sims
Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind
~ Kassandra Sims
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.
~ Kat Duff
They say that some of those who failed to reach the top fell into deep ravines, and others were swallowed by monsters and demons," said Baz. "The monsters and demons were of their own making," said Tadis. "If you invent them, you will have to slay them. That is common practice, is it not? We invent monsters so we will have something to slay. Then we punish ourselves for not being up to the task.
~ Kate Banks
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
most people associate bidets with France, and the French word is used in English, Spanish and Italian, it was the Italians who invented an oblong vessel,
~ Katherine Ashenburg
groundbreaking, earth-shattering invention.
~ Katherine Hannigan
Technical disputes are the bane and boon of a lab. Yet engineering and invention often allow many ways to achieve the same result. Honest disagreements, then, are endemic in every technical enterprise. Some disputes, however, involve what programmers call "religious differences." The points at stake seem important only to zealots; a neutral party might say that both sides are right. But zealots—unable to silence their opponents with logical arguments—hurl insults. One
~ G. Pascal Zachary
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She suspected that civilization had been invented to make more stories. And
~ Gardner R. Dozois
The invention of the productive economy obscures the far longer history of social reproduction as the business of life.
~ Gargi Bhattacharyya
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.
~ Garry Kasparov
a capacity for innovation is the hallmark of our species. Each of us was born to create—whether it's landscaping a garden, writing a blog, composing a photograph, inventing a recipe, developing an app, or starting a business.
~ Gary Hamel
A Great Answer is essentially a new answer. It
~ Gary Keller
At some point close to the year 1800, somebody created the world's first cocktail.
~ Gary Regan
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.
~ Gary Snyder
Invention: I always wanted to invent something that would move around & make funny noises & would change the world as we know it & I forgot all about that until we had kids & now I see I came pretty close.
~ Brian Andreas
The year 1992 should have been remembered as the 700th anniversary of the death of a man who changed the world. Yet the occasion passed without note. Few know of the remarkable achievements of someone who, more than any other, can be said to have invented science.
~ Brian Clegg
I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
~ Brian Eno
The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
~ Brian Herbert
I soon found out that I wasn't the only magician to turn to cinema. Many of us recognized that a new kind of magic had been invented, and we wanted to be part of it.
~ Brian Selznick
The most relevant precursor to today's computers is the Jacquard loom,
~ Brian W. Kernighan
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
~ Brian Wilson Aldiss