Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Thought is the original source of all wealth all success all material gain all great discoveries and inventions and of all achievement.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which at the same time assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

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!

What we must understand is that the industries processes and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

I'm proud of my invention but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

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

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.

That is to say epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar so the invention itself has been.