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Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator. ”
To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment. ”
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. ”
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. ”
And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while. ”
Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. ”
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. ”
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ”
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality. ”
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. ”