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...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. read more
...there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. In my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says read more
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power read more
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other read more
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.