We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.

That is to say epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar so the invention itself has been.

All one's inventions are true you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

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.

I like action movies even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years the MP3-playing alarm clock I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure and so my reward in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again so is a bicycle repair kit.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane the automobile the computer - says little about his intelligence but speaks volumes about his laziness.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.