Robert Henry Thurston Quotes

• Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

  Robert Henry Thurston

  Hard Work, Science, Greatness

  "The Growth of the Steam Engine". Popular Science, Volume 12, No. 1, p. 11, November 1877.

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