Invention Quotes - Page 9

• The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

  John Banville

  Civilization, Crafts, Sentences

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• All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Thinking, Perception, Intuition

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• What some people invent the rest enlarge.

  Jonathan Swift

  People

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• Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Improvement, Condensation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.14

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• Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Women, Memorable, Virtue

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• A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mother, Guilt, Conscience

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

  Thomas A. Edison

  Great Inventions, Phonograph

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• Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

  Mason Cooley

  Retirement, Return, Youth

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• I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Two, Differences, Design

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that many artists, writers, and dancers are interested in magic.

  Vivianne Crowley

  Art, Spring, Blessed

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• Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Perspiration

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• The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

  William Saroyan

  Cycling, Bikers, Biking

  William Saroyan (2002). “Where the Bones Go”, Pr at California st

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• Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

  J. K. Rowling

  Imagination, Innovation, Foundation

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• War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

  Margaret Mead

  War

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.182, Berghahn Books

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• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Progressive, Forces Of Nature

  Nikola Tesla (2011). “My Inventions and Other Writings”, p.18, Penguin

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• The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

  Del Close

  Discovery, Honest, Truth Is

  Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson (1994). “Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation”, Meriwether Publishing

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• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Important Events, Printing, Humans

  "Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

  El Lissitzky

  Art, Believe, Creative

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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

  Gustav Mahler

  Divine

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Optional, Parcel

  "The best business advice from Jeff Bezos" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

  Carl Sagan

  Reading, Writing, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Design, Perspiration

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• There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

  Robert Boyle

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

  Richard Courant

  Masters, Mathematician, Analytics

  Richard Courant (1948). “Lectures on the theory of functions”

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