Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

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Topic

Innovation Creativity Invention

Author

Mary Shelley

Source

Frankenstein

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1831 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, introduction.

Current Citation

Shelley, Mary. "Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831)." Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018.

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Another quote from the 1830s

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Topic
Making the most

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source
The American Scholar
Medium
Speech
Language
English
Time
1837 1830s 19th century
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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Another quote about Creativity

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

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Thinking outside the box Thinking big Creativity
Speaker
The Serpent

Author

George Bernard Shaw
Source
In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden) Back to Methuselah
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1921 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "In the Beginning: B.C. 4004." Back to Methuselah. Penguin, 1988, pt. 1, act 1. Originally published by Constable/Brentano's, 1921.