Understand this clearly: you can teach a man to draw a straight line, and to carve it; and to copy and carve any number of given lines or forms, with admirable speed and perfect precision; and you find his work perfect of its kind: but if you ask him to think about any of those forms, to consider if he cannot find any better in his own head, he stops; his execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking being. But you have made a man of him for all that. He was only a machine before, an animated tool.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Man such as we know him, is a machine.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

In the case of living machinery, the ‘designer’ is unconscious natural selection, the blind watchmaker.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

The surest plan to make a Man
Is, think him so.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Every machine has had the same history – a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys, of partial improvements discovered by several generations of nameless workers, who have added to the original invention these little nothings, without which the most fertile idea would remain fruitless. More than that: every new invention is a synthesis, the resultant of innumerable inventions which have preceded it in the vast field of mechanics and industry.
Science and industry, knowledge and application, discovery and practical realization leading to new discoveries, cunning of brain and of hand, toil of mind and muscle – all work together. Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present.
By what right then can anyone whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say – This is mine, not yours?

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

It is never the machines that are dead.
It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

Man is an imagining being.