Inventions Quotes

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

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

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

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

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

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

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.

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 thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

Life is composed of different inventions.

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.

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

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

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?

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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