Chuck Palahniuk

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

American Novelist

Coco Chanel

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

French Designer

Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

German Philosopher

Carl Sagan

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

American Scientist

Philippe Petit

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

French Celebrity

Anthony J. D'Angelo

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

American Writer

Suzanne Vega

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

American Musician

Rhys Ifans

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

Welsh Actor

Georges Braque

French Artist

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Many inventions changed history. Consider how the invention impacts society when using the word.

Historic Impact

Use 'invent' for something entirely new, not just an improvement of existing things.

Original Creation

Inventing requires creativity and innovation, different from simply discovering something already existing.

Innovation Required

Use 'invent' with caution. If it refers to a story, it may imply that the story is not true.

Credibility Question

'Invent' can also show creativity in literature or storytelling, often in a positive light.

Imagination Unleashed

When someone 'invents' an excuse or reason, it suggests they're hiding the true reason.

Avoiding Truth

 and challenged them repeatedly with smallpox, proving that they were immune to the disease. With this procedure, Jenner invented the smallpox vaccination. Unlike variolation, which used actual smallpox virus to try to protect people, vaccination used the far less dangerous cowpox virus. The medical establishment,

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 that are strong enough not only to hold up a world that is completely invented by the author, but also to change the reader's perspective on the real world that resumes only when the final squiggle is reached? I'm not sure anyone knows the answer to that question,

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 okay it has limited mobility but you're gonna pressurize cans fantastic pressurizes you gives you your oxygen scrubs your carbon dioxide a little micrometeorite protection helps little radiation but we can do better our dream is to invent the world's

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 to invent a new field of mathematics. Carl wrote to Euler for help with the problem. Euler first dismissed the question as having nothing to do with math. But the more he wrestled with it, the more it seemed there might be something there after all.

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 Tattooed mummies from around the world attest to the universality of body modification across the millennia, and to the fact that you really were stuck with it forever if your civilization never got around to inventing laser removal.

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 Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Since ancient times, mankind has hotly debated whether mathematics was discovered or invented. Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the universe around us,

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 But while chimps across the world only have a limited repertoire of vocalizations, they constantly invent and share new gestures with each other. One theory basically is that they imitate gestures from each other.

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 Think about Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Machines will then be better at inventing than we are, and they'll be doing so on digital timescales.

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 significant advancements in mathematics and astronomy they invented the concept of zero and they developed an accurate calendar system used to guide the Maya agricultural cycles the calendar was

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 He invented carpentry and all the tools used for it. He designed the first bathhouse and the first dance floor. He made sculptures so lifelike that Hercules mistook them for actual men.