“Remembering is a great invention of the mind.”

— Rodman Philbrick , book Freak the Mighty

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American writer 1951

Rodman Philbrick book Freak the Mighty

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“Remembering is just an invention of the mind… It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not… You don't need a time machine if you can remember.”

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“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 (1839–1903) mechanical engineer

Robert Henry Thurston, " The Growth of the Steam Engine https://books.google.nl/books?id=dywDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17," in: Popular Science, Nov 1877, p. 11

“War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.”

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist

Who Speaks for Man? (1953), p. 318.

“To remember something or to invent something, it comes to the same thing.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

Obituaries (1979)

“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world… enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Source: Speeches And Letters Of Abraham Lincoln, 1832 1865

“Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

“As tremendous as the influence of financial inventions have been, in the influence of network inventions will be as great, or greater.”

Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”

Gary Snyder (1930) American poet

Source: Earth House Hold

“To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.”

Galileo Galilei book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)

“Remembering is a great invention of the mind.”

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