#venti

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. ↗

— David Hilbert

#aside #assist #casting #complicated #developments

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#another #because #believed #capability #could

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #chemical #invention #inventor #name

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

#conventions #massachusetts #old-time #rule #strongly

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#answers #ask #backbone #courses #doubt

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

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

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#fresh-starts #new-beginnings #reinvention #time #change

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

— Arnold H. Glasow

#country #few #inventions #needs

I really do the conventions now for two reasons. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#i #now #really #reasons #two