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Tag Name "Invention" (716)

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Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
William Blake
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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
Nikola Tesla
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Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
Amar Bose
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Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.
Joseph Jastrow
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Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.
Sark
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen
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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
Thomas A. Edison
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Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
Vanna Bonta
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Invention is the mother of necessities.
Marshall McLuhan
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Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve
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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
William James
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Invention breeds invention.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
Cynthia Ozick
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Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.
Robert Adams
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Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic anyone can have a go.
Trevor Baylis
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos the materials must in the first place be afforded it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.
John Owen
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Go, write it in a martial hand be curst and brief it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
William Shakespeare
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