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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.
Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.
There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention.
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
A secret control slip is a wonderful invention. It sculpts and lifts the bum and smooths the hips.
No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry.
Technology has always been a catalyst for change, such as the invention of the airplane or the Internet.
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.
The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.
I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Our most valuable resources - creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention - are, in fact, unlimited.
The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.
I just realized that with the invention of the iPhone and others you now get to see the top of people's heads.
I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.