Invention Quotes

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

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

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

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

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

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

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

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

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

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

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.