Inventions Quotes

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

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

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

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

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

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

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.