Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

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.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.