Invention Quotes

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

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

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

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

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

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

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

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

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

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

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

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.

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.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

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