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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The wheel Anthropomorphism Human ingenuity Technological progress Innovation

Author

Guillaume Apollinaire

Source

Les Mamelles de Tirésias

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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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If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.

Rupert Brooke

The Soldier

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World War I

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Rupert Brooke
Source
The Soldier
Medium
Poem
Genre
War poetry
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
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Brooke, Rupert. "The Soldier." 1914 and Other Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915, I. 1.

Current Citation

Brooke, Rupert. "The Soldier." The Poems of Rupert Brooke. Dover Publications, 2020, I. 1.

Another quote about Innovation

The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Socrates

Quoted in Republic, by Plato

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Socrates

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Plato
Source
Republic
Medium
Philosophical dialogue Dialogue
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
375 BC 370s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Socrates. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Republic, written by Plato, translated by Desmond Lee. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Another quote from 1917

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

Sigmund Freud

Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Topic
Civilization

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Sigmund Freud
Source
Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
Medium
Lecture
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.

Another quote originally in French

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.

Henri Poincaré

The Value of Science

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Topic
Power of thought

Author

Henri Poincaré
Source
The Value of Science
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
French
Time
1905 1900s 20th century
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Original Citation

Poincare, Henri. Valeur de la Science [The Value of Science]. Flammarion, 1904, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Poincare, Henri. The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare, edited by Stephen Jay Gould. Random House Publishing Group, 2001.