Our inventions are won't to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau
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An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

Rutherford B. Hayes
187

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

Louis Pasteur
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Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Bertrand Russell
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Eric Hoffer
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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

James Dyson
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.

Andre Maurois
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Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Deng Xiaoping
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This is one of the best inventions in the real estate market that I have seen.

Peter Maurer
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We [Walker Digital] have hundreds of inventions. All we do is invent business methods -- that's our business.

Jay Walker
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[The] world [is] in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Joyce Cary
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We respect not only professors and experts but also technologists who have their own inventions.

Wen Jiabao
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois
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Absolutely groundless, idle inventions.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Lawrence Durrell
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Among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions.

Sue Miller
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Ernest Dimnet
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The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

Emil Nolde
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