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invention
«A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
baby, chemical, chemicals, coil, coiled, Coils, colossal, compare, devises, devising, finest, flow, ingenuity, interrelate, interrelated, invention, irreplaceable, marvelous, most recent, Planes, precision, recent, solutions, springs, super, supercargo, The Finest, timing
«Doubt is the father of invention.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Doubt,
Inventions
| Keywords:
Father of, invention, The Father
«Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Conflict
| Keywords:
contrives, contriving, gadfly, invention, noting, observation, passivity, sets, sheeplike, shocks, stirs
«As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.»
Author: Michel Foucault
(Historian, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
archaeology, date, invention, nearing, recent
«Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns»
«A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila»
Author: Mitch Ratcliffe
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
exceptions, faster, handgun, handguns, Human history, invention, lets, tequila
«Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?»
Author: Oscar Hammerstein II
(Author, Lyricist, Producer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
invention, I Love You, I Want You, lover, sweet, Sweet Dreams, The Sweet
«An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?»
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes
(President, Statesman)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
Alexander, Alexander Graham Bell, amazing, bell, graham, invention, march, patented, Pennsylvania, telephone, telephones, telephone bell, telephone call, Washington
«From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and al»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| Keywords:
have happened, invention, representation, representations, truer
«Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Civilization,
Mankind
| Keywords:
faculties, gotten, improvisation, invention, perception, so-called, The So, uses