Invention Quotes

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

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Doubt is the father of invention.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

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

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

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

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.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.