“The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.” MeanPersonsUsePurposeForceProduceMachinesImprovementInventionForces Of Nature Author:Friedrich List
“His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.” ShouldProduceStandardsAccountsInventionFidelityFactual Book:Hemingway on War Source: Hemingway on War
“So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention of new superstitions among the dervishes - in a word, stimulating many abominable things which otherwise might not have been.” MenWorldHas BeensMightWould BePurposeNumbersAtheismProduceWorshipPositive AtheismInventionDevotionBeing TrueOfferingSuperstitionsWrathPilgrimMosquesCometsMeccaMultiplyingQuickeningPurpose Of God Author:Pierre Bayle
“The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.” LooksKindLittlesLightBitsWaterProduceStrangeLittle BitModelsGlassesComplicatedInventionMediums Author:Peter Higgs
“The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.” WayMadeCareLyingGivenEasyWifeEffectsProduceDiseaseResponsiblePatientInventionCuresPermanentFalsehoodPledgeCapsDiagnosisEpidemicsDrunkennessSigningPatentsSaloonsPerjuryForgeryAprons Author:Jane Swisshelm
“It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.” DifficultProduceFineGeniusInventionCharmMelody Author:Joseph Haydn
“The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.” IdeasFactsTogetherCoursesProduceThirdsOriginalsInventionNew IdeasNew Inventions Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont
“The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.” WritingMindCharacterUseMemoriesPracticeProduceOffersAppearanceInventionDiscouragingPupilsForgetfulnessRemindingTrue WisdomElixir Author:Socrates
“Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.” BigsFictionObjectsProducePeriodsShotsEarsScience FictionBoxesInventionCodeDnaGalaxyCrackedPandoraChimeraPandora's Box Author:Margaret Atwood