#ingenious

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. ↗

— Henry W. Kendall

#belief #change #devices #face #governments

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#declaration #delegate #drawn #esquire #independence

Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#clever #dormant #erupt #ingenious #later

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#evolution #humor #ingenious-statements #random-chance #humor

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. ↗

— Rex Stout

#detective #finesse #ingenious #joy #rare

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#corporation #device #individual #individual responsibility #ingenious

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#because #become #derive #her #his

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#community #daily #effect #encourage #held

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#being #human #human being #ingenious #plumbing