Quotes
Quotes about Invention
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
A weak invention of the enemy.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Sheer necessity,--the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
The stress of invention is less arduous than the strain of word for word copying
Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.
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.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Behind the words of Jesus and the memories about him, there shines forth a self-authenticating portrait of a real person in all his human uniqueness, an impression which is accessible alike to the layman and to the expert, to believer and non-believer. No reader of the gospel story can fail to be impressed by Jesus' humble submission to the will of his God on the one hand, and his mastery of all situations on the other; by his penetrating discernment of human motives and his authoritative demand of radical obedience on the one hand, and his gracious, forgiving acceptance of sinners on the other. There is nothing, either in the Messianic hopes of pre-Christian Judaism or in the later Messianic beliefs of the early Christian Church to account for this portrait. It is characterized by an originality and freshness which is beyond the power of invention. (Continued tomorrow).
Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 The great need today among the young is the strengthening of belief in things spiritual, for in spite of the superhuman advances in science, invention, and culture, none of this is attributed to God's gift to man; in fact, the increase of knowledge and the cult of education have but given to youth a self-reliant independence where religion has no place, and beyond admitting that Christ was "the best man that ever lived," there are few who concede any other tribute to the Creator. And yet the saving principles of the world are rooted in Christ, implanted in him; the Truth by which men live is the Truth as taught and lived by Jesus.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
