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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. - Sir Joshua Reynolds To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Rosalind at IV, iii) Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. - Jonathan Swift The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing. - Jonathan Swift He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (pt. III, ch. V, Voyage to Laputa) Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi von Nagyrapolt) The great inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil. - Isaac Taylor We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well; But when did woman ever yet invent?" - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Princess (II, l. 366) Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. - Martin Farquhar Tupper Invention is the mother of necessity. - Thorstein Veblen Necessity, mother of invention. - William Wycherley Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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