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• Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

  Gerald Vizenor

  Race, Justice, Diversity

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• Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

  George Iles

  Science, Men, Research

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments. No rescue by the monied, governing, institutional, or otherwise privileged is in sight. It's up to the energy and inventiveness of the younger generation to pull the gated minds of millennium America toward acceptance of diversity, community, and fairness, and I hope they have as much fun as I did in my adolescences achieving what we Sixties kids only imagined.

  Mike A. Males

  Fun, Kids, Acceptance

  Mike A. Males (1999). “Framing youth: ten myths about the next generation”, Common Courage Pr

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• In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Taken, Patents, Research

  "Championship: Opening up the ivory tower" by Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette, www.businessinsider.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Mother, Fun, Father

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• Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Money, Mean, Government

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• All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Simple, Hands

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• You see, Dad, Professor McLuhan says that the environment that man creates becomes his medium for defining his role in it. The invention of type created linear, or sequential thought, separating thought from action. Now, with TV and folk singing, thought and action are closer and social involvement is greater. We again live in a village. Get it?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Dad, Men, Media

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Baby, Children

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

  Kathy Lette

  Nobel, Inventor, Prize

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House

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• Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

  Stefan Zweig

  Hero, Discovery, Conquer The World

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• Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

  Soong May-ling

  Distance, Airplane, Government

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• By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.

  Ron Conway

  America, Growth, Culture

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• That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Epic, Needs, Has Beens

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• A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Science, Fixed, Quantity

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

  Henry Tizard

  Science, Waiting, Wartime

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• But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

  Robert Fulton

  Science, Different, States

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• I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

  Beano Cook

  Hate, Science, Hair

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• I told [Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted "Mary had a little lamb," etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly. On first words spoken on a phonograph.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Talking, Machines

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• Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem very impressive for quite a long while.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Baby, Science, Long

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

  Aeschylus

  Science, Numbers, Excellent

  Aeschylus (1922). “Four Plays of Aeschylus”

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• The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.

  Charles Babbage

  Powerful, Science, Discovery

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• The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Past, Men

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Country, Science, Vacuums

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• Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Science, Proposal, Projects

  "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project". www.w3.org. November 12, 1990.

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