Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyInvention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. He was saying that invention is not something that can be done by accident. Like all great discoveries, it must be planned and worked for years.
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