If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young,… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men to look askance at the patenting… — Elihu Thomson Copy Share Image
