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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.
We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
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We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke:
"Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."
"They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;
But when did woman ever yet invent?"
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
they have sought out many inventions.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but
they have sought out many inventions.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Want, the mistress of invention.
Want, the mistress of invention.
It is not true, it is a happy invention.
[It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]
It is not true, it is a happy invention.
[It., Se non e vere e ben trovato.]
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
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A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but
a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power
of a man and the well-being of mankind.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.