Invention Quotes

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

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

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.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

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

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.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

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.

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

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.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

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.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

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.