Quotes About Invention

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

No man or Genie on earth had created anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had invented anything - he had Invented a lie; an unwise man.... thinks we have created an atom.

Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been.

It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine—each was discovered by one man.

and I think (like you, by the way) that theory cannot be fabricated out of the results of observation, but that it can only be invented. [Letter to Karl Popper; 11 Sep 1939]

La découverte des réactions atomiques en chaîne ne constitue pas pour l'humanité un danger plus grand que l'invention des allumettes. Mais nous devons tout entreprendre pour supprimer le mauvais usage du moyen.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a moustrap.

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The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will never be a book, in spite of the endless gadgets and guises invented to force it into that role.

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad. Ésta es otra razón por la cual nos mostramos tan reacios a aplicar nuevos inventos. Todo descubrimiento de las ciencias puras es potencialmente subversivo; incluso la ciencia debe ser tratada a veces como un enemigo.

If you go to New South Wales, you will see marsupials hopping about the countryside. And if you go to the antipodes of the self-conscious mind, you will encounter all sorts of creatures at least as odd as kangaroos. You do not invent these creatures any more than you invent marsupials.

Primitive man explored the pharmaceutical avenues of escape from the world with a truly astonishing thoroughness. Our ancestors left almost no natural stimulant, or hallucinant, or stupefacient, undiscovered. Necessity is the mother of invention; primitive man, like his civilized descendant, felt so urgent a need to escape occasionally from reality, that the invention of drugs was fairly forced upon him.

O que nos leva por fim - continuou o Sr. Foster - a deixar o domínio da simples imitação servil da natureza para entrar no mundo mais interessante da invenção humana

Ford help him!

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed power to them!

Il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.

Tutto il resto era ancora nulla. Inventarlo - questo sarebbe stato meraviglioso.