“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."...
--Henry Ford
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the 18th century mathematician Farkas Bolyai vividly observed: “When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.”
Malcolm Gladwell summarized in the New Yorker a few years ago: “Scientific discoveries must, in some sense, be inevitable. They must be in the air, products of the intellectual climate of a specific time and place.”
nb J Neil Schulman, Jeffrey Tucker
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the 18th century mathematician Farkas Bolyai vividly observed: “When the time is ripe for certain things, they appear at different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.”
Malcolm Gladwell summarized in the New Yorker a few years ago: “Scientific discoveries must, in some sense, be inevitable. They must be in the air, products of the intellectual climate of a specific time and place.”
nb J Neil Schulman, Jeffrey Tucker
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