Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
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The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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.
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." read more
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
