Quote by Bertolt Brecht
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. – Bertolt Brecht

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What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization. – Bertolt Brecht

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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

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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