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To invent is to discern, to choose.
Henri Poincare
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Henri Poincare
French
Mathematician
Born:
Apr 29
,
1854
Died:
Jul 17
,
1912
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The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
Jean Piaget
Education
Knowledge
Men
Invent
New Things
Increase
Possibilities
New
Doing
Discover
Goal
Child
Capable
Create
Who
Amount
Things
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Future
Best
Invent
Predict
Way
Best Way
One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.
James Gunn
You
Invent
Invention
Before
Rule
Imagine
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology
Man
Wait
Invent
Invented
Until
Around
Just
Then
Needing
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Work
Great
Travel
Courage
People
Impossible
Path
Problems
Invent
Young
Think
Must
Great Qualities
Towards
Message
Qualities
Discover
Unexplored
Young People
Succeed
Conquer
Differently
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter
Rights
Invent
Sense
Human Rights
Invented
Real
Very
America
Did
Human
Real Sense
America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.
John McCain
Rights
People
Invent
Human Rights
Those
Out
All People
Religions
Simply
Cultures
America
Human
Common
Nations
Cannot
Them
Choose
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Alone
Best
Man
Laughter
Invent
Laughs
Had
He
Perhaps
Know
Who
Why
Suffers
Deeply
Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.
David Rockwell
Challenges
Opportunity
Problems
Invent
Every
Project
Out
Learn
Figure
Reinvent
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
John F. Kennedy
Work
Men
Invent
Believe
Back
Those
Machines
Out
Put
New
Talent
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