Quotes About Invention

Side note: invalid. Whoever invented that word, and made it the same word as not-valid? That person sucked.

It has been somewhere said by Johnson, that merely to invent a story is no small effort of the human understanding.

We especially need imagination in science.

How did Mr. Tesla get inside the Imagination Station?

Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occurring without taking out the magic spark plug, the genius of invention that ignited the adventure in the first place.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.