Quotes About Invention

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ.

I am told that our chroniclers' practice of inventing speeches for great persons whose lives they write is unscholarly.

we have to create machines to allow us to continue creating machines becouse what machines are never going to do is to create machines

Creativity creates dimensions in the Universe.

The secret of creativity is knowing how to discover and exploit your sources.

There is no one veracious aisle to innovation.

Think of thinking as an invitation to innovation.

To create or not to create? That is the new question.

There is not even a thought, or an invention, which is not common property, born of the past and the present

Lord Snow says that every man may be permitted his own clichés. But this is not enough. He must invent his own clichés and then persist in them until, if other people use them, their source is instantly recognizable. Thus plagiarism shall be turned into homage.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.

If I tell the truth—and I should, shouldn't I?—I translate books with my invented system because it makes time flow more gently. That's the primary reason, I think. As Camus said in The Fall: "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Only the trees and beasts and birds tell unmitigated truths, because these poor things have not the power to invent. In this men show their superiority to the lower creatures, and women beat even men. Neither is a profusion of ornament unbecoming for a woman, nor a profusion of untruth.

But above all, buying is a profound pleasure: it is a discovery, almost an invention.

Why do we live so painfully in our fictions? Why do we suffer so, from the things we ourselves have invented?

There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because there was all this science just lying around waiting for somebody to pick it up.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.