Quotes About Invention

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is?

You have becomes used to administering your mother's medication. So perhaps it is as if you are coming off medication, too? You are using your mother like a shield to protect yourself from making a life. Medication is a ritual which I have now erased from both your lives. Attention! You will have to invent another one.

What we call originality is no more than ignorance of antecedents.

Our eternity is not real; it resembles us; it is our own invention; its scent is vanity.

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

Calling pronouns like ze and hir "new pronouns" or "neopronouns" is misleading too, because these words are relatively old. They may be enjoying a renaissance today, but ze appears in 1864, introduced by someone known only by the initials J. W. L., and hir first popped up a century ago, invented, or at least introduced to readers in California, by the editor of the Sacramento Bee on August 14, 1920.

we know that Francis Brewster coined E, es, and em in 1841, and Charles Crozat Converse announced thon and thons in 1884, though he may have invented his common-gender pronouns as early as 1858.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

Many inventors often wish it secretly that they had invented Blue Jeans, because of the beauty and grace coupled with the comfort and simplicity that Jeans have created in our world.

Most of the inventors, even today, secretly wish that they had invented Jeans, because of the beauty and grace coupled with simplicity and comfort that blue Jeans have created in our world. Yours truly is no exception either! What's more, I love wearing Jeans as casual wear, especially during the weekends. I also think that whenever a celebrity or a beauty or a genius wears jeans, it always makes the most impactful fashion statement, loud and clear!

Nous ne devons pas sentir mal parce que quelqu'un vole nos idées. ça arrive. Nous, à la place, devrions nous sentir mauvais qu'ils ne disposaient pas tout de leur propre pour commencer. - Deo

The birth of a novel invention can only be compared with the creation of a beautiful painting or an exquisite perfume, in my view, It's an amazingly perfect blend of art and science, unexpected, unforeseen, unprecedented and truly divine. Long live the creativity and the spirit of inventiveness!

We mustn't feel bad because someone steals our ideas. It happens. Instead, we should feel bad that they didn't have any of their own to begin with.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention