Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Andy Kindler

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Jonathan Safran Foer

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

Max Heindel

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Ernest Hemingway

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Gore Vidal

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

Jeff Bezos

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

Jean Piaget

To understand is to invent.

Germaine Greer

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Frank Stella

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

Francis Bacon

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Friedrich Nietzsche

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

Christian Vieri

This is the latest invention that you have invented,

J. C. Ryle

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

George Gobel

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

Gustav Mahler

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

John Banville

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Richard Courant

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Walter Scott

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

William McDonough

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

William McDonough

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.

Steve Jobs

Probably death is the best invention of life.