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We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works.
Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
There's certain key dance crazes that are just so much fun - wouldn't that be a great thing to do, to invent a dance?
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
Most superheroes, when you look at origin stories - before they invent their costume, they just go with what's around.
Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
This is America. And we've basically invented the computer, and we should invent ways to protect all those that use it.
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.
The benefit of having a story that takes place in the real world is that you don't have to invent the real world. It exists.
The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
I hope they invent a machine in which you type in the age you want to be, and it lifts and separates everything nonsurgically.
I think 'Lost' didn't invent the flashback, obviously. It's been a cinematic tool. It's been around almost as long as cinema has.
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.
I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.
You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
Language is ever on the move, and most days, I check out the 'Urban Dictionary' where anyone can invent a new and useful word or phrase.
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.
Everything I do, I put my full heart into. I don't want to be just another actor, another singer, another artist. I want to invent history.
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.