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#invention

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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.


Mose Allison


#concerned #essentials #far #i #improvisation

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.


Rudolf Arnheim


#intuition #invention #observation #perceiving #reasoning

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.


John Ashcroft


#cooperating #cooperation #father #invention #like

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?


Thomas Day


#boast #distinguish #graces #inhabitants #inventions

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.


Whitney M. Young


#create #invention #our #products #use

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.


Pierre Bayle


#author #being #book #finds #first

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.


Mark Kelly


#benefit #flying #get #having #here

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.


Auguste Lumiere


#camera #commercial #curiosity #exploited #invention

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?


Enrico Bombieri


#inventions #math #perspective #science #science

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.


Humphrey Carpenter


#invention #myths #mathematics






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