Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.
Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power.
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
Creativity is an integral part of our personality.
The book. The book. . . think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
To understand is to invent.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.