When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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Topic

The wheel Anthropomorphism Human ingenuity Technological progress Innovation

Author

Guillaume Apollinaire

Source

Les Mamelles de Tirésias

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Apollinaire, Guillaume. Les mamelles de Tirésias [The Breasts of Tiresias]. 1917, Paris, France.

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

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Another quote from 1917

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
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Wilson, Woodrow. Address to congress requesting a declaration of war against Germany. Congress meeting. 2 Apr. 1917, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Another quote originally in French

FIRST LAW: In every animal... A more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ... While the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.
SECOND LAW: All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals... Are preserved by reproductions to the new individuals which arise.

Jean-Baptiste Lamark

Philosophie Zoologique

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Evolution

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Jean-Baptiste Lamark
Source
Philosophie Zoologique
Language
French
Time
1809 1800s 19th century
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Original Citation

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. Philosophie zoologique [Zoological Philosophy]. Paris: Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, 1809, pt. 1, ch. 7.

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Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. Zoological Philosophy, translated by Hugh Samuel Roger Elliott. Cambridge University Press, 2011, pt. 1, ch. 7.