Birney/invention

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or invention:

“owls in the beardusky woods”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“His mind was great and powerful, without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)