In the hour of perturbation, thou canst not hear the answer to thy prayers.

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There philosophical discoveries still have this power to unsettle the world.

Inventing new devices and making them pay off is an organizationally messy process that corporations will tolerate only to a point.

Meanwhile, in chaotic, divided, inefficient Europe, when one ruler decided to repress his innovators, "they did no more than switch the center of economic gravity from one area to another."