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Inventions

«Doubt is the father of invention.»
«Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing»
«All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.»
«An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?»
«Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.»
«Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.»
«Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.»
«Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos»
«I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent»
Author: Paul Simon (Singer, Song Writer) | About: Discovery, Inventions | Keywords: invent
«I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas»