#inventions

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#inventions #beauty

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ↗

— Walt Disney

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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#geometry #inventions #poetry #science #sure

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#before #bread #bringing #business #capitalism

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#country #few #inventions #needs

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

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It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#applies #arts #based #discoveries #discovers

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #human #human inventions #inventions #just

Did you ever think about the creation of the flame-thrower? Someone, somewhere, at some time must have been sitting on his porch, and said, thoughtfully, 'I want to set him on fire.' gesturing to his neighbor. His friend who sat beside him and happened to be handy with tools said, 'I can do that.' Thus, we have a flame thrower. ↗

— John Larson

#humor #inventions #humor