Invention Quotes - Page 39

• One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

  Caryl Rivers

  Engineering, Political, Great Inventions

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Opportunity, Discovery, Important

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• In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

  Josef Albers

  Creativity, Discovery, Opinion

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• It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.

  E. J. Hughes

  Photography, Design, Quality

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• Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

  Emily Dickinson

  Hope, Heart, Patents

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1672, Delphi Classics

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• There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Fire, Politics

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Philosophy, Healing, Men

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• What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Essentials

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fire, Doubt, Atheism

  "T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator". Book by Cyril Bibby, p. 257, 1950.

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• Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Technology, Triggers, Additives

  First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan, April 01, 2001.

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• Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.

  Eric A. Havelock

  Years, Greek, Uniforms

  "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

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• Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.

  Harold Innis

  Memories, Writing, Collective Memory

  Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

  Philippe Kahn

  Roots, Innovation, Force

  Q and A part of a speech at the Silicon Valley computer museum, 2005.

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• Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

  Randal Marlin

  Communication, Gutenberg, Eras

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.284, Broadview Press

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• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Simple, Discovery, Years

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

  Vanna Bonta

  Wild Imagination, Discipline, Common Sense

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• More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his portrait of the poet and scholar A. E. Housman) -- with characters from life and literature. But one cannot always tell the difference between those who are real and those who are imaginary.

  Mel Gussow

  Real, Character, Play

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• Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Quality, Degrees, Demand

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.46, Penguin

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• I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

  William John Locke

  Lying, Sleep, Love Is

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.91, tredition

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• In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wall, Discovery, Wheels

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2009). “The Great Crash 1929”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.

  Richard Armour

  Atheist, Children, Believe

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

  Gore Vidal

  Process, Equal

  Gore Vidal (1988). “At home: essays, 1982-1988”, Random House Inc

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

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Century, Nineteenth Century, Method

  Science and the ModernWorld ch. 6 (1925)

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• A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

  John Keats

  Stars, Long, Imagination

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 8 October 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 170

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• When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mother, Growing Up, Mean

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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