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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. — Henri Poincare

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. — Alan Valentine

Science brings men nearer to God. — Louis Pasteur

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. — Albert Einstein

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. — Sally Ride

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition. — Stephen Jay Gould

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. — Marie Curie

Science is a creative process. It requires imagination, the ability to connect dots that maybe other people haven't connected before. — Jennifer Doudna

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. - Rosalind Franklin

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. — Rosalind Franklin

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. — Jules Verne

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

Short Invented Quotes

  • Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. — Nikola Tesla
  • Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. — Mark Twain
  • Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap. — Albert Einstein
  • The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it. — Reinhard Bonnke
  • Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. — Archimedes
  • Limitation makes the creative mind inventive. — Walter Gropius
  • Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. — Unknown Author
  • America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. — Jimmy Carter
  • I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. — Jacques Deval

Invented Image Quotes

Invented quote They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. - Fridtjof Nansen quote

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

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake quote

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. - Voltaire quote

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. — Voltaire

Invented quote The smallest good deed is better than the grandest invention.
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest invention.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas A. Edison quote

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. — Thomas A. Edison

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. - Arthur Conan Doyle quote

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy. - Khushwant Singh quote

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy. — Khushwant Singh

Invented quote We need men who can dream of things that never were.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
We must use what we have to invent what we desire. - Adrienne Rich quote

We must use what we have to invent what we desire. — Adrienne Rich

Truth exists; only lies are invented. - Georges Braque quote

Truth exists; only lies are invented. — Georges Braque

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. - Christopher Morley quote

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. — Christopher Morley

Invented quote The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
Cats invented self-esteem. - Erma Bombeck quote

Cats invented self-esteem. — Erma Bombeck

Invented quote The best way to predict the future is to invent it
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. - Gary Snyder quote

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own. — Gary Snyder

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. - Thomas A. Edison quote

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. — Thomas A. Edison

Invented quote The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
I invent nothing, I rediscover. - Auguste Rodin quote

I invent nothing, I rediscover. — Auguste Rodin

Invented quote The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Invention Quotes

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out. — Al Capone

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. — Voltaire

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves. — Jean Piaget

Invented quote We shouldn't even need the word "atheism". If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary Gods., ratio
We shouldn't even need the word "atheism". If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary Gods., rational people wouldn't have to deny them.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. — Seymour Papert

The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards. — Lewis Grizzard

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

Invented quote To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. — Marilyn Monroe

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit. — Thomas Paine

Science Inspirational Quotes

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. — John Glenn

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. - Marie Curie

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut — Albert Einstein

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. — Richard P. Feynman

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace. — Wernher Von Braun

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet - Henry Mintzberg

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg

Science Discovery Quotes

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. — Lord Kelvin

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. — Richard P. Feynman

With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth. — Akiane Kramarik

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov

Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. — Enrico Fermi

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. — Albert Einstein

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world. — Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich. — Michael Faraday

Discovery And Invention Quotes

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. — Joline Godfrey

The invention of CRISPR and the plague of COVID will hasten our transition to the third great revolution of modern times. These revolutions arose from the discovery, beginning just over a century ago, of the three fundamental kernels of our existence: the atom, the bit, and the gene. — Jennifer Doudna

To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized — Simone de Beauvoir

We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history. — Rishi Sunak

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. — Carol P. Christ

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. — Lukas Foss

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. — Samuel Smiles

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. — Samuel Smiles

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention. — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come. — Nikola Tesla

Innovation And Invention Quotes

My hope is that Stennis will continue to pioneer in the future those advanced propulsion systems that will take us to Mars and beyond. — Fred Haise

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. — Dean Kamen

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.' — Eric Schmidt

Learn how to validate an idea with as little time and financial investment as possible. — Cliff Lerner

The existing system and inflationary world cannot work with the technology where it is today. It’s impossible. — Jeff Booth

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Products and services we create as entrepreneurs are like elixirs – remedies or cures for certain ‘diseases’ that are plaguing our target market. — Pat Flynn

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. — Thomas A. Edison

To me, 5G is not groundbreaking and will not change people’s lives enough for all of the hype. — Micky Watkins

Execution is more malleable than market, model, and idea. — Rand Fishkin

Great Invention Quotes

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing. — Margaret J. Wheatley

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools. — Benjamin Rush

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. — Nikola Tesla

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. - Loren Cunningham

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission. — Loren Cunningham

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. — Demetri Martin

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. — Robert Maynard Hutchins

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. — Robert M. Hutchins

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. - Ed Mcmahon

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. — Ed Mcmahon

Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart. — Ryan Deiss

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. — Holger Czukay

Inventions And Inventors Quotes

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization. — Alexander Graham Bell

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. - Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. — Charles Kettering

Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet. — W. E. B. Du Bois

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions. — Paul Watzlawick

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor — Thomas A. Edison

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead . — Daniel Webster

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. — Joshua Reynolds

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product. — Jared Diamond

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things — Abraham Lincoln

New Inventions Quotes

The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest. — Hedy Lamarr

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley

Innovation is not about inventing something completely new, it’s about improving what already exists. — Jensen Huang

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far. — Kim Dotcom

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired. — Walter Walker

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. — Thomas A. Edison

The Union of the Russian People helped invent a new style of right-wing politics – novel not just for Russia but for most of the world – a politics in a new key oriented toward the masses, public spaces, and direct action, a fascism avant la lettre. — Stephen Kotkin

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. — Lord Byron

On this day, when we're celebrating our constitutional heritage, I urge you to be faithful to that heritage - to impose on our fellow citizens only the restrictions that are there in the Constitution, not invent new ones, not to invent the right because it's a good idea. — Antonin Scalia

We're having to invent new ways of making decisions together. — William Ury

Human Inventions Quotes

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. — Paulo Freire

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. — Oliver Sacks

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois

Bitcoin is the most difficult property that the human race possesses or has yet invented to confiscate…I literally have to crack your head open and read your mind to take it…It’s harder to take than every other thing you might own. In fact, it’s exponentially harder. — Michael Saylor

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. — Remy De Gourmont

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci

Man is greater than the tools he invents. — American Proverbs

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs. — Nikola Tesla

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. — Alan Watts

The invention of agriculture caused the human food supply to increase in quantity and deteriorate in quality, but food industrialization multiplied this effect. — Daniel Lieberman

Science And Technology Quotes

Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control. — John Von Neumann

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others. — Masaru Ibuka

We need to scale up cooperation between APEC member economies on scientific and technological innovation, and foster an open, fair, equitable and non-discriminatory environment for the development of science and technology. — Xi Jinping

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious. — Edgar Mitchell

Atlantis was a highly evolved civilization where the sciences and arts were far more advanced than one might guess. Atlantis was technologically advanced in genetic engineering, computer science, inter-dimensional physics, and artistically developed with electronic music and crystal art forms. — Frederick Lenz

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. — Richard P. Feynman

The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. — Annie Jacobsen

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. — Fareed Zakaria

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More Invented Quotes

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — U.G. Krishnamurti

There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict. — U.G. Krishnamurti

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. — Abdul Kalam

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents. — Ludwig van Beethoven

Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free. — Jacque Fresco

We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into this concept. We soon discover that John Calvin did not invent it. — R. C. Sproul

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool. — Samuel Morse

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