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His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Human subtelty 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.
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I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
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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.
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
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