“There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual.” FirstsWellsImportantProblemIndividualSocialDevelopmentEvolutionSkillsInventionFasterLiving ThingsVelocityAccelerationGreat Inventions Author:Ralph W. Gerard
“I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.” MadeFactsRomanceMaterialsSkillsMethodInventionContemporaryConstructionEngineeringPaleGroundworkSkills And Knowledge Book:Invasion of the Sea Source: Invasion of the Sea
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski
“The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.” ProblemPoliticalLevelsSpecialPoetSkillsInventionDescribingLegislators Author:Robert Hass