Helen Fisher

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

American Scientist

Sendhil Mullainathan

We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.

American Economist

Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

English Scientist

Jean-Luc Godard

A film ingeniously directed does indeed give the impression of having been laid end to end, but a film ingeniously edited gives the impression of having suppressed all direction.

French Director

Joseph Lancaster

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

English Educator

James Joyce

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Irish Novelist

Isaac D'Israeli

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

British Writer

Ambrose Bierce

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

American Journalist

Victor Hugo

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

French Author

James Dyson

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

British Designer

The word 'ingenious' often implies admiration for someone's cleverness, typically in a positive sense.

Positive Connotation

Use 'ingenious' to describe a clever and practical way of solving a difficult problem.

Problem Solving

'Ingenious' usually refers to a surprising or unexpected form of creativity or originality.

Unusual Creativity

In academic contexts, calling a method 'ingenious' can be high praise, recognizing intellectual creativity.

Academic Praise

Use 'ingenious' to show appreciation for someone's innovative thinking, especially in technical fields.

Innovation Appreciation

'Ingenious' emphasizes the uniqueness and originality of an idea or solution, setting it apart from others.

Originality Highlight

 Now these studies are ingenious, but they're simple. They work like this. You take two groups of people who are similar in all relevant respects, and you remind one group that they're going to die but not the other, then you compare their behavior. So you're observing how it biases behavior

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 can fluctuate into existence, and then, by the miracle of inflation, blow up into this huge and variegated cosmos we see around us. Okay, this is a really ingenious scenario. It's very speculative. It's fascinating. But I've got a big problem with it, and the problem is

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 that have personal weight to us -- ideas like blame and punishment or eyewitness memory. These are important things in our daily lives. Now, the beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is.

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 it might seem we already have plenty. Yet, as our world changes, new ideas and inventions spring forth, and science progresses, our existing words leave gaps in what we want to express and we fill those gaps in several ingenious, practical,

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 started to work on the phonograph it was an ingenious device it basically took in sound waves through a kind of a membrane covered with parchment and that would vibrate modeled after the anatomy of the human ear and would convert those

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 partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers, a deception epidemic -- in short, what one author calls a post-truth society. It's been very confusing for a long time now.

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 some of the smallest residents are the most ingenious the tiny pygmy gecko is a master of the jungle so my newt it could sit on a fingertip he is dwarfed by life in the undergrowth

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 And if the mere idea of boundaries makes you feel, well, bounded, think again. Because the world's most ingenious people turn boundaries into the source of their creativity.

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 incredible stories behind these structures and the inventions of seven ingenious leads forward that have enabled spaceman to have fun big to bigger into the world's biggest

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 Only about a hundred killer whales in the world hunt using this technique. It's an ingenious solution