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

—Toba Beta

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[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

—Bill Bryson

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I just invented a hug machine. It’s solar powered so you can use it when you feel depressed, like on a cloudy day. Shit.

—Jarod Kintz

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What is it, you ask?” Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. “I haven’t thought of a name yet. Got any ideas?””Shit,” the pirate said, said of. The gag made elocution difficult.”That...

—Lindsay Buroker

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think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

—Ryan Lilly

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I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.

—Aleksandra Ninkovic

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Every invention began as an imagination.

—Ifeanyi Enoch

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When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth’s crust....

—William Henry

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

—H.G. Wells

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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!

—Jarod Kintz

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The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

—Toba Beta

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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.

—Shannon Celebi

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

—Arthur Mellen Wellington

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

—Douglas Engelbart

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What we invent, we become

—Marty Rubin

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Rebels revel in rewriting reality’s restrictions.

—Ryan Lilly

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

—Anuj Somany

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

—Francis Galton

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

—Warren Ellis

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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...

—Humphrey Carpenter

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Desperation is the father of ingenuity.

—James C. Jones II

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A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration.

—Roshan Kolar

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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.

—Ayn Rand

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Captivity ends when creativity begins

—Constance Chuks

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Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.

—Marty Rubin

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

—Ryan Lilly

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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.

—Ashly Lorenzana

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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...

—Jarod Kintz

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

—Lewis Thomas

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

—Srinivas Shenoy

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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,...

—André Comte-Sponville

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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...

—J.K. Rowling

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

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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[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...

—Simone de

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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,...

—Robert G.

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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...

—Antoine Lavoisier

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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.

—Elbert Hubbard

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

—Marty Rubin

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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...

—William Crookes

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

—Bamigboye Olurotimi

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

—Fridtjof Nansen

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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,...

—L. Frank

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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...

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

—Betsy Cornwell

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

—Frances Hodgson

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

—Jarod Kintz

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wow weird woo.

—Toba Beta

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Discovery’s friend is creativity

—Phillip Gary

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