Want is the mistress of invention

Quote by Susanna Centlivre

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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have...

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have...

Necessity, the mother of invention

Necessity, the mother of invention

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than...

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can...

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can...

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the...

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the...

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the...

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the...

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous...

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous...

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi...

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi...

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the...

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the...

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things....

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things....

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and...

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the...

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the...

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of...

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of...