Quotes About Invents

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time.

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

In my window night invents another night

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.