280 Quotes About Invention

You may be wrong at first; you can still be right at last.

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Our arrogance as a species is only a few degrees away from us claiming that we invented, not discovered, fire.

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.

If humans excel at anything, it is inventing new ways to make themselves miserable.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex']Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions — even when they worship a goddess — as the inventions of men to perpetuate their dominion.

If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.