Quotes on the topic: Invention


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You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.


Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.


If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.


I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.


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 alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.


A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.


No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.


The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its mineral springs were supposed to be good for you. This was before the invention of bran. In the 20th century, Cheltenham grew into an active municipality.


I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.


Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.


I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.


Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.


The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.


In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.


In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.


I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.


The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.


The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.


Mothers are the necessity of invention.


I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.