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15 quotesToday every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Invention and Inventor
Bertolt Brecht
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
Inspiration
William Congreve
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War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Uncategorised
Norman Cousins
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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
Science and Scientists
Emily Dickinson
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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Work
Thomas A. Edison
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
Arts and Artists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Poetry and Poets
Gustave Flaubert
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Doubt is the father of invention.
Doubt
Galileo Galilei
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Invention and Inventor
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Painters and Painting
Hamerton
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
Heaven
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
Invention and Inventor
Andre Maurois
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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
Discontent
David Rockerfeller
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Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Invention and Inventor
Jonathan Swift
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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
Life and Living
J. Z. Young
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun