Quotes about Invention

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe;

Primitive man explored the pharmaceutical avenues of escape from the world with a truly astonishing thoroughness. Our ancestors left almost no natural stimulant, or hallucinant, or stupefacient, undiscovered. Necessity is the mother of invention; primitive man, like his civilized descendant, felt so urgent a need to escape occasionally from reality, that the invention of drugs was fairly forced upon him.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

There was a midsummer restlessness abroad--early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present--or, if there was no present, to invent one.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.