Quotes About Invention

processes—the engines of flux—are now more important than products. Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.

Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once we invented the scientific method, we could immediately create thousands of other amazing things we could have never discovered any other way.

Every idea that is made real (technology) enlarges the space we have to construct our lives.

We keep inventing new things that make new longings, new holes that must be filled.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them.

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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

The human brain has a mechanism for dealing with data overload. It forgets. If indeed we're on a path to building machines that think like us, how ironic if the next great invention in computer memory turns out to be forgetting.

Cockroaches were a problem, too, and to me the people who invented Combat, the little black roach-trapping contraption, are urban folk heroes.

Who makes up or invents proverbs? They are so often a crockful of never-mind-what. They pile up platitude upon platitude which the officious and unctuous mouth in and out of season and are taken to be the distillates of wisdom.

All what man tries to make or manufactures is one of the greatest things bringing down his life span. Bombs, guns, cars, Bicycles, Foods etc

Imagination," Zuse used to say, "is the key to all progress.

The state is a terrible concretization,but if such things begin to concretize it is the very devil, as Nietzsche feels […] But surely the state is not the word of God. It is the invention of the many and therefore dangerous and poisonous; it is a devilish invention replacing the eternal plan of God that should rule the world. It is man instead of the divine competence, the limited mind instead of the infinite mind, things based upon temporal assumptions instead of upon eternal verities.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

In the description of matter as a collection of molecules instead of a continuum, questions related to reversibility are presented for the first time in the invention, almost as a joke, of what is now known as "Maxwell's demon".

Newton nesnelerin uzayda hareket etti?ini, uzay?n da bo? bir kap, evren için büyük bir kutu oldu?unu hayal etmi?ti. Newton taraf?ndan icat edilen bu "uzay"?n, dünyan?n kutusunun neden yap?ld??? da belli de?ildi.

In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.

La confusione fra queste due diverse attività umane, inventare racconti e seguire tracce per trovare qualcosa, è l'origine dell'incomprensione e della diffidenza per la scienza di una parte della cultura contemporanea.

If Planck is the father of the theory, Einstein is the parent who nurtured it.

novelty is the single most effective way to capture a person's attention.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF the twenty-first century. Some