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• A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

  Dean Kamen

  Technology, Ideas, Office

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• History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

  Voltaire

  History, Imaginative, Series

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• Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

  Margaret Mead

  Motherhood, Fatherhood, Facts

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• The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sputnik, New Inventions, Rockets

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

  George Takei

  Innovation, Problem, Capacity

  Source: progressive.org

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• Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

  Ray Dolby

  Skills, People, Inventing

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• The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Opening Up, Entrepreneur, Reform

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.132, Routledge

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• The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Spring, Issues, Patents

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• By nature, men love newfangledness.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men

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• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
  And black despair succeeds brown study.

  William Congreve

  Black, Brain, Despair

  "An Impossible Thing". Poem by William Congreve, 1720.

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Conscience is a Jewish invention.

  Adolf Hitler

  Conscience

  "Hitler Speaks". Book by Hermann Rauschning, p. 220, 1939.

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• Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Heaven

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• History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

  Frank Herbert

  Race, History, Constant

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.352, Penguin

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• Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

  Henry Fuseli

  Landscape, Painter, Selection

  1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).

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• Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

  Plato

  Mother

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.75, First Avenue Editions

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• Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

  E. B. White

  Grandma, Looks, Littles

  "The Old and the New". The New Yorker, June 19, 1937.

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Europe, Years, World

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• The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Science, Devil, Divergent

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• Probably death is the best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

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• Invention is totally independent of the will.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Independent

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.421

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• Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Anger, Ovens

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

  G. Harry Stine

  Jobs, Lasers, Looking For A Job

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• Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

  Horace Walpole

  Exercise, Gunpowder, World

  Horace Walpole (1861). “The letters of Horace Walpole: earl of Orford”, p.394

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

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Thinking, Perception, Intuition

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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