Invention Quotes

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

- Edward Hopper

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Published on: January 18, 2025 04:51 PM

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

- John Adams

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Published on: January 16, 2025 10:27 PM

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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

- Henry A. Wallace

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Published on: January 15, 2025 08:41 AM

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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.

- Agatha Christie

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Published on: January 10, 2025 12:17 PM

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The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

- Jared Diamond

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Published on: January 6, 2025 04:41 PM

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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

- John Ashcroft

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Published on: January 2, 2025 09:58 AM

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

- John Berger

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Published on: January 2, 2025 01:05 AM

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In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

- George Wald

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Published on: December 26, 2024 06:51 PM

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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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Published on: December 23, 2024 05:43 PM

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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

- Dave Barry

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Published on: December 12, 2024 08:51 PM

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

- Mose Allison

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Published on: December 10, 2024 05:43 AM

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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

- Pierre Bayle

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Published on: December 3, 2024 11:43 AM

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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

- Lascelles Abercrombie

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Published on: November 19, 2024 05:29 PM

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I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

- Joel Coen

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Published on: November 13, 2024 12:07 PM

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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.

- Norman Borlaug

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Published on: October 28, 2024 07:36 AM

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