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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
— Kenneth Clark
And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions ...
— Thomas A. Edison
Inventions are smarter than their inventors
— Larrie D. Ferreiro
To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
— Filippo Brunelleschi
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
— Bertrand Russell
I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
— James Dyson
Inspiration is the tool God uses to communicate with humans. If God didn't exist, there would be no creativity or inventions in the world.
— Robin Sacredfire
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
— Albert Einstein
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!
— Darnaya Darice
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
— John Stuart Mill
I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
— John Philpot Curran
If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.
— Will Durant
The great sexual energy that one has on abstinence can be transformed into art, poetry, dance, and inventions.
— Girdhar Joshi
Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, must have inventions to delight the taste, would now be glad of bread, and beg for it.
— William Shakespeare
Inventions and purely human institutions.
— Jean Meslier
I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.
— Marissa Moss
Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.
— Joseph Jastrow
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
— Gustave Flaubert
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
— Caryl Rivers
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
— Madeline Miller
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.
— Louis Pasteur
Want has been the great schoolmaster of the race: necessity has been the mother of all great inventions.
— Orison Swett Marden
After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.
— Victor Robert Lee
Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught
— Sunday Adelaja
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
— John Galsworthy
For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
— Chris Toumazou
We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.
— Scott Adams
Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
— Alexander Graham Bell
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved
— Umberto Eco
Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.
— Eraldo Banovac
Life is composed of different inventions.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.
— Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Holding a patent doesn't mean you are inventive, and not holding a patent doesn't mean you are not.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
— Nicholson Baker
Desperation is the father of invention.
— Micheal Lee Nelson
Do not debate! is one of my inventions.
— Deng Xiaoping
Inventions Change the World, Not Patents
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
— Nikola Tesla
Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from
— John C. Wright
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
— Arnold H. Glasow
Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.
— Benjamin Franklin
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.
— Voltaire
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.
— Brian McKnight
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
— Enrico Bombieri
Patents protect ideas, but only if they are implementable.
— Kalyan C. Kankanala
Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.
— William J. Federer
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
Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
— Elizabeth Charles
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
— Thomas A. Edison
If you have a pair of contradictory ideas, discuss all the possible consequences with your peers.
— Eraldo Banovac
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
— Walt Disney Company
Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.
— Andre Kertesz
A beautiful mind is filled with ideas and inventions
— Martellis Thurmand
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
— Thomas A. Edison
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
— James Russell Lowell
Old fashions please me best; I am not so niceTo change true rules for odd inventions. — William Shakespeare
There are no new inventions, only new discoveries.
— Stephen Richards
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
— Larry Wall
Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
— Winston Churchill
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
— Agatha Christie
