All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions
Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
A bad memory is the mother of invention.
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".
After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
Without invention nothing is well-spaced.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind
Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.