Invention Quotes

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

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

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

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.

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

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

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

God is Man's greatest invention

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

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

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

To understand is to invent.

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

Basketball is a pure invention.

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

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

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

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

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Architecture is invention.

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

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

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

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

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

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

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

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

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

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

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

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

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

The book is man's best invention so far.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

... inventions and purely human institutions.

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

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

Invention is the mother of necessity.