I like to experiment a lot and invent things.
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
To understand is to invent.
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook. . . Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.
God forgives those who invent what they need.
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
I think the first thing I thought when I got out to L. A. was just: Oh, if I want to act, I have to find a different way to go about it because the parts for girls are as dispiriting as the banking jobs. You have to really be willing to invent, I guess, a different path for yourself.
To invent is to discern, to choose.
I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.