The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civil
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
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I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
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Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superflu
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What the country needs are a few labormaking inventions.
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But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows.. Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
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Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
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Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
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I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
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Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
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We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work
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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
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A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with
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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!
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.
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