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Invention Quotes

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Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

The unveiling of a technical or organisational innovation to the public is what constitutes its introduction.
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2.
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen

3.
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel Foucault

4.
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Joseph Haydn

5.
But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.
Robert Fulton

6.
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.
James Naismith

7.
To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
Hugh Jackman

8.
God is Man's greatest invention
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

9.
Do not debate! is one of my inventions.
Deng Xiaoping

10.
I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

11.
I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
Damien Hirst

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

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To understand is to invent.
Jean Piaget

14.
You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
Shimon Peres

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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler

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Basketball is a pure invention.
James Naismith

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The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
Paul Virilio

18.
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
Norman MacCaig

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After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
Andrea Pirlo

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Art is more to do with observation than invention.
Michael Craig-Martin

21.
Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
Thomas Cole

22.
Architecture is invention.
Oscar Niemeyer

23.
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
Adolf Hitler

24.
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
Whitney M. Young

25.
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
Josef Albers

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The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
Nicholas Murray Butler

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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

28.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Aristotle

29.
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.
Dean Kamen

30.
The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
H. L. Mencken

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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
Jeff Bezos

32.
An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.
Eli Whitney

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

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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
Carl Menger

35.
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions
Ethel Merman

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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
John Keats

37.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
George Bernard Shaw

39.
Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
Amar Bose

40.
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

41.
The book is man's best invention so far.
Carolina Maria de Jesus

42.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman

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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
Jeff Bezos

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I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
Steve Jobs

46.
... inventions and purely human institutions.
Jean Meslier

47.
The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.
Albert Schweitzer

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It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind
Isaac Asimov

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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
John Galsworthy

50.
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
George Gobel