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You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.


Richard Blackmore


#greater #invention #mind #motion #motions

Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories, But never forget 'eureka' was inspired in a bathtub.


Toba Beta


#idea #invention #inspirational

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.


Ayn Rand


#objectivism #vision #men

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


John Adams


#contrived #country #ever #his #imagination

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.


Pierre Bayle


#aptly #author #being #book #first

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.


Jared Diamond


#competing #contact #cultural #elsewhere #faster

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.


Michel Foucault


#date #easily #end #invention #man

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead.


Damon Knight


#inventions #science-fiction #sounds #vibrations #experience

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.


Ninon de L'Enclos


#feminine #invention #masculine #nothing #virtue

Architecture is invention.


Oscar Niemeyer


#invention






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