Quotes About Invention

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing worlds and people.

Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.