"I have no private interest in the..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
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“The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.”
“In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.”
“There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.”