Top Invention Quotes
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Tim O'Reilly
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
Steve Lacy
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
Joshua Reynolds
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
Tom Clancy 
Ray Kurzweil 
William Congreve 
Samuel Richardson 
Nicolas Roeg 
Jimmy Carl Black 
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler 
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For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
David Horowitz
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The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas Engelbart
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In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
Paul Watzlawick
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So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
Chris Hadfield
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Marge Piercy
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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
David Hilbert
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