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• I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Long, World, Trends

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• Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

  Trevor Baylis

  Magic, Brands

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• Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

  Lynda Resnick

  Children, Technology, Apples

  "Five Reasons Americans Can Be Happy" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2009.

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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

  Art, Discovery, Scientist

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• Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mistake, Mean, Talent

  "The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us". Book by Diane Ackerman, September 14, 2015.

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• In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'

  Eugene Mirman

  Dirty, Talking, Funny Graduation

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• It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

  Michael Servetus

  Devil, Christianity, Destruction

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• This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and it must not be turned into an ideology, as has sometimes happened before in the course of history.

  Pope Francis

  Justice, Church, Sometimes

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• Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Heart, Boys

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• It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an imposition, an invention of man - certainly out of necessity, but now even that necessity is out of date. It was a necessary evil in the past, but now it can be dropped. And it should be dropped: man has suffered enough for it, more than enough. It is an ugly institution for the simple reason that love cannot be legalized. Love and law are contradictory phenomena.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Past, Simple

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• Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but no right to ask that others be prevented from making similar things. Such a prohibition, though given for the purpose of stimulating discovery and invention, really in the long run operates as a check upon them.

  Henry George

  Running, Book, Men

  Henry George (1916). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy”

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• It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion.

  Paul Winchell

  Men, Practice, Humanity

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• Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their consequences. … in mathematics our freedom lies in the questions we ask – and in how we pursue them – but not in the answers awaiting us.

  Steven Strogatz

  Lying, Math, Discovery

  Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.

  Benoite Groult

  Life, Art, Civilization

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• The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Self, Mind

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.22, Broadway Books

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• There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Lying, Cutting

  George Eliot (2016). “The Lifted Veil”, p.23, George Eliot

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• Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Nature, Science

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.971, Delphi Classics

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• You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  Larry Page

  People, Focus, Innovation

  "Computing is still too clunky: Charlie Rose and Larry Page in conversation". Interview with Charlie Rose, blog.ted.com. March 19, 2014.

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• The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Men, Helping, Hades

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• Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Renaissance, Ancient, Lost

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.149, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Men, Thinking

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• Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

  Adam Hart-Davis

  Impact, Tiny, Stubborn

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• Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

  Patrick Macnee

  Lovely, Style, Television

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• We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Men

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• If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, United States, May

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