#invention

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#i #invention #powers #said #well

Necessity... the mother of invention. ↗

— Plato

#mother #necessity

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. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#because #change #deals #death #familiar

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman. ↗

— Joel Silver

#after #back #batman #been #book

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#benefit #flying #get #having #here

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? ↗

— Enrico Bombieri

#inventions #math #perspective #science #science

Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories, But never forget 'eureka' was inspired in a bathtub. ↗

— Toba Beta

#idea #invention #inspirational

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #vision #men