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• Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.

  Philip Slater

  Needs, Lasts, Problem

  "The Joys of Technology: Burying Ourselves in Capabilities" by Philip Slater, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2007.

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• Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA sequence of the human genetic code. This amazing accomplishment is likely to affect the 21st century as profoundly as the invention of the computer or the splitting of the atom affected the 20th century. I believe that the 21st century will be the century of life sciences, and nothing makes that point more clearly than this momentous discovery. It will revolutionize medicine as we know it today.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Science, Dna

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• Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Father, Doubt, Pioneers

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• A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

  Lori Greiner

  Real, Mistake, Successful

  "20 Quotes From the Two Women of 'Shark Tank'" by John Brandon, www.inc.com. January 20, 2015.

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• The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Moving, Knowing

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• Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Today, Architecture

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• It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Sex, Fire

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• Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.189, Routledge

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• The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fire, Discovery, Patents

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• Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one's living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordinary strings of words is a marvelous thing. I couldn't ask for anything better. It's as near to godliness as I can get.

  John Banville

  Writing, Civilization, Long

  "John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200". Interview with Belinda McKeon, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, People, Style

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• Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, People, Effort

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.52, Penguin

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• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

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• So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Real, Pride, Keys

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Rivera’s work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day.

  Terrance Hayes

  Flower, Book, Biblical

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• We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opportunity, Practice, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2008). “Man Alone with Himself”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.

  Paul Hawken

  Philosophy, Creative, Promise

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• I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Real, Party

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.164, Yale University Press

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• Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

  James Carroll

  Memories, Stories, Definitions

  James Carroll (1997). “An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivation, Children, Real

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• Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Teacher, Art, Hunger

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• Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

  Pablo Picasso

  Mean, Progress, Use

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• Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Father, Women

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