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Invention Quotes


"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."


"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."


"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift."


"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."


"Mothers are the necessity of invention."


"Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential."


"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."


"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."


"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."


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