Quote by Albert Gyorgyi
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. – Albert Gyorgyi

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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. – Andre Maurois

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a mans house is a monopoly. – Daniel Webster

I dont mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I dont even mind using someones reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. – Joseph Newcomer

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. – Sir Joshua Reynolds

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