Top 1200 Discovery And Invention Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated and didn't talk much to other kids. She was a little overweight, and the other kids looked down on her for that reason.But then she made a discovery about how to do something on the computer. The discovery was picked up by other kids, and within a few weeks there was a total transformation. This kid was now in demand. And that changed her feeling about herself.

Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness is indeed like living. The horizon drops away, bringing new sights, sounds, and smells from the earth. When one moves through the forests, his sense of discovery is quickened. Man is back in the environment from which he emerged to build factories, churches, and schools. He is primitive again, matching his wits against the earth and sky. He is free of the restraints of society and free of its safeguards too.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

Nor age so eat up my invention.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

The environment as we perceive it is our invention.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

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

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

The book is man's best invention so far.

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Without invention nothing is well-spaced.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.