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Successful ideas, contrary to belief, are hardly ever based on original thoughts. They come to one as the result of some outside impulse nudging one’s attention: talking to someone, listening to a speaker, reading, hearing some thing on the radio, looking into a shop window, passing something on the street.

Genius itself depends upon the information within its reach. Even Archimedes, great thinker that he was, around 200 B.C., could not have devised Edison’s inventions be cause scientific knowledge had not developed to the neces sary point. Continue reading →