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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

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

Famous Invention Authors

Northrop Frye

Theophile Gautier

Lascelles Abercrombie

John Bruton

Douglas Engelbart

Norman MacCaig

Seymour Papert

George Soros

Gustav Mahler

Roger von Oech

Nicolas Roeg

Kit Bond

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All Invention Quotes

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

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Doubt is the father of invention.

Ambrose Bierce

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I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

Dean Kamen

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I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

Alanna Ubach