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• An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious… — Reginald Fessenden
• A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds… — Albert Einstein
• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things… — Albert Einstein
• Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms?… — Noam Chomsky
• The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure… — Horace
• The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction… — Raymond Louis Wilder
• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces… — Karl Jaspers
• A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Genius is power, talent is applicability. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels… — Tom Shippey
• A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may… — William James

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