A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
发明
Invention
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.
发现包括看到每个人都看到的，思考没有人思考的。
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
我们的创造能力已经超过了我们明智地使用我们发明的产品的能力。
Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.
自从蒸汽船发明以来，遥远的国家变得像那些近在咫尺的国家一样。
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
所有的感知也是思考，所有的推理也是直觉，所有的观察也是发明。
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
人是充满希望和创造的动物，这两者都掩盖了事情是无法改变的这一观点。
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
艺术是美学的发明，美学又是哲学家的发明。我们所说的艺术是一种游戏。
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
我有一种强烈的感觉，每一个项目都是一种发明，而不是我在建筑学课程中听到的一个词。
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
电视就像室内管道的发明。它没有改变人们的习惯。只是把他们关在房子里。
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
当乔纳斯回到家，告诉他的妻子他迟到了三天，因为他被鲸鱼吞了。
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
现代发明已经淘汰了纺车，同样的进步规律使今天的女人与她的祖母截然不同。
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
事实上，死亡似乎是进化中一个相当晚的发明。在遇到一具真正的尸体之前，人类可以在进化过程中走很长的路。
My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.
我的发明，(电影摄影机)，可以被利用…但除此之外，它没有任何商业价值。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The book is man's best invention so far.
这本书是迄今为止人类最好的发明。
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
一项发明必须在它完成的世界里有意义，而不是在它开始的世界里。
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
一个人学习如何利用自然的力量为自己的目的，通过完善科学和机器的发明和改进，他会生产更多。
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
永远不要退却:这是一个可怜的发明。
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
女人的美德是男人最伟大的发明。
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
发明创造早已达到极限，我看不出有进一步发展的希望。