Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories,But never forget ‘eureka’ was inspired in a bathtub.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

To save the environment—and my childhood memories, I merged a gas station pump with a jukebox. Look, my car now runs on 80s music!

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— … are rather invention than engineering proper.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

What we invent, we become

Rebels revel in rewriting reality’s restrictions.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men’s hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression ‘structureless germs’.

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

That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them...

Desperation is the father of ingenuity.

A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration.

This box is useless,” said Alliance 6-7349.Should it be what they claim of it,” said Harmony 9-2642, “then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles.

Captivity ends when creativity begins

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn’t really exist. It’s just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.

I had a dream about you. The blue sky matched the blue in your eyes, though you had a few more clouds in your irises. When you got sad, you didn’t cry—you rained, and that’s...

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.

Le bonheur n’est pas une chose; c’est une pensée. Ce n’est pas un fait; c’est une invention. Ce n’est pas un état; c’est une action. Disons le mot: le bonheur est création.[…] C’est une praxis,...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power...

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’]Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses...

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of “inspiration.” It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge — that is to say,...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries...

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

It’s fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half...

The fools will forever pay the wise for the things that takes only wisdom to do successfully.

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

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone,...

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves...

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

I want to create a cologne that smells like a whisper. It’ll be for all the secret admirers out there.

wow weird woo.

Discovery’s friend is creativity

Dagny,” he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, “think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and...

Apparently, the glasses didn’t need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone’s personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual’s address, the browser couldn’t actually...

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself.

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving...

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew...