Top 1200 Human Inventions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

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

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

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

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against this Book, and yet the Bible stands absolutely unshaken today. At times almost all the wise and great of the earth have been pitted against the Bible, and only an obscure few for it. Yet it has stood.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human - human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

Truly new inventions take time to play out.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

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

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

Compassion is essential for any type of relationship between anybody – human to human, human to dog, human to cat, human to bird.

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.