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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 moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be put read more
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically
sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should
be an inventor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter:
I say she never did invent this letter;
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She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter:
I say she never did invent this letter;
This is a man's invention and his hand.
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.
