INVENTION QUOTES III

quotations about invention and inventing


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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

MARY SHELLEY
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introduction, Frankenstein


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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create

JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Forsyte Saga


Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

L. FRANK BAUM

The Lost Princess of Oz

Tags: L. Frank Baum


Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness.

T.S. ELIOT

The Rock