Quotes About Invention

When one of the children of his friend Harvey Firestone boasted that he had some savings in the bank, Ford lectured the child. That money was idle. What the child should do, Ford said, was spend the money on tools. "Make something," he admonished. "Create something.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

study of human nature was in a sorry state. While he had reservations about the ancient philosophers for depending 'more on Invention than Experience', he found modern philosophers –

Horror movies -- of the genuinely fantastic, supernatural variety -- had not been invented yet, at least not in America, where convention dictated that supernatural occurrences always be "explained away," usually as the disguise or machinations of a criminal.

What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not, usually, that the writer has invented something without precedent, but that she has made us "perceive" what we already, in a conceptual sense, "know", by deviating from the conventional, habitual ways of representing reality. Defamiliarization, in short, is another word for "originality". I shall have recourse to it again in these glances at the art of fiction.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

What Hath God Wrought.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was

God made the integers, man made the rest.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!

When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.