"Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest."

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Source : "The Growth of the Steam Engine". Popular Science, Volume 12, No. 1, p. 11, November 1877.

Robert Henry Thurston

#Hard Work Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Tree Quotes

“DNA doesn't make a family. Love does.”
“you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.”
“Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.”
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”

Source : Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.178
“The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice”
“When a bomb actually goes off, there's a lot of confusion, and people often don't know a bomb has gone off. For a long time, people might think there's been an electrical malfunction or something else that's exploded.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I dont want to write a book; I dont want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.”
“I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.”

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