Top 1200 Discovery And Invention Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time.

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Life is a re-discovery.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.

Discovery is the joy.

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

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Sex is a discovery.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.