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• In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Change, Art, Frustration

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• The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

  John Bruton

  Successful, Europe, World

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• The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Demon, Steam Engines

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.52

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• If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

  Arthur E. Kennelly

  Mother, Science, Research

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• The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Science, Discovery

  "The Creative Process". Scientific American 199:59, September 1958.

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• I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

  Marc Andreessen

  Business, Technology, Doe

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• Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, Politician, Scientist

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• Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Democracy, Vacuums

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• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Men, Thinking, Hands

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• Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Science, Fiction, Novelty

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• It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

  Thomas More

  Men, Vanity, Given

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• [At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Race

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• Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Math, Interesting, Important

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• Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Math, Negative, Minus

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Wall, Mean, Men

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• You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Business, Great Inventions, East

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• An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Iron, Lightning

  Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2007). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.119, Yale University Press

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• If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

  Charles Babbage

  Age, Great Inventions, Looks

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.21

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• A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Evil, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1893). “Natural history of intellect and other papers”

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• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, People, Democracy

  Interview with Monica Attard, Australian Broadcasting Company, April 03, 2005.

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• Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Order, Broken

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• The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Unity, Brotherhood

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

  Diana Vreeland

  Peanut Butter, Peanuts, Christianity

  "New again: Diana Vreeland" by Jonathan Lieberson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2014.

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• The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Eye, Reality

  "Haring – Art in Transit" by Keith Haring, www.haring.com.

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