Quotes by Invention Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . . Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton deviation enlargement invention An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor. Eli Whitney inventor valuable invention Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos! Ellen Kushner fingertips fine invention I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man? Erica Jong plugs invention men That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. Ernest Hemingway inventor invention way There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions Ethel Merman invention discipline player Contentment: The smother of invention. Ethel Mumford invention contentment design His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. Ernest Hemingway fidelity invention should Learn of the green world what can be thy place Ezra Pound green-world invention art ...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know Francis Bacon invention knows science Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward. Frank Stella rigor stella invention History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Frank Herbert invention race history Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. Fridtjof Nansen retreat invention lines New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. Franklin D. Roosevelt invention judgement ideas Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job. G. Harry Stine lasers invention jobs Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power. Gangaji invention survival powerful The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself. Gary Gulman popcorn buttons invention Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. Georg C. Lichtenberg invention men heaven It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. Georg C. Lichtenberg invention annoying thinking By nature, men love newfangledness. Geoffrey Chaucer invention men «1234567891011»