“I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.” PeopleIfsFirstsMadeInventionPlasticSurgeryPlastic SurgeryNew Inventions Author:Alanna Ubach
“The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.” MenMadeDesireBoysStudyPlansHe ManIndependenceCarefulInventionInequalityDesirableAcquisitionPupilsAdopting Author:William Godwin
“The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.” MenWayArtMadeHe ManSonLettersInvention Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.” WayYearsMadeProblemWould BeFoundLinesSimpleResultsTheoryPureResearchDiscoveryWork OutInventionConstructsExperimentationDiscarded Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and tired librarians. Like everything of importance since the invention of the cloak and the shroud, its origins are cloaked in mystery and shrouded in secrecy. Some scholars believe that the first instance of book burning occurred in the Middle Ages, when a monk was trying to illuminate a manuscript. All agree that book burning was almost non-existent during the period when books were made of stone.” TryingFirstsBelieveChildrenHas BeensMadeBookAgeSchoolMysteryMiddleCenturyPeriodsStonesImportanceAgreeTiredAtheistInventionInstanceBurningCustomsCommunistScholarCharmingMonkRivalsSecrecyMiddle AgesLibrarianFascistsAntiquityManuscriptsCloaksShroudsBook Burning Author:Richard Armour
“Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.” PeopleMadePersonalityAvailableArchitectureInventionOccasionsManifestationGeometryIliad Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.” IfsMadeEndsGovernmentWantedResultsCreativityCuttingFailingCallingActivityEssentialsAspectScientistWork OutExperimentsInventionMade ItHypothesisBeing AfraidAfraid To FailGreat Inventions Author:Edwin Land