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"If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?"
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"It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them."
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
"Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"
"Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes."
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
"If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.)."
"Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization."
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
"People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!"
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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."
"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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