Logo
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. – Sir Joshua Reynolds

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Inventing, Inventions
category

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. – Andre Maurois

Category:
Inventing, Inventions

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. – Thomas Alva Edison

Category:
Inventing, Inventions

Random Quotes

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. – Ben Stein

Category:
Faith

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. – Ralph Erskine

Category:
architecture

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler

Category:
Food

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. – Abraham Lincoln

Category:
Equality