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Who never once got anyone to build a ship or anything else
by dsjoerg 7y ago
Who never once got anyone to build a ship or anything else
- svara 7y agoHow do you know that? As an internationally famous author, he has certainly influenced people in some way. It's just incredibly hard to measure how exactly. Arguably, he precisely described the role for artists in society with that quote.
- ronilan 7y agoMaybe. But he did make a fundamental scientific discovery. He proved that snakes and elephants cause Gaussian distribution.
- Verdex 7y agoTo be fair, the whole quote is about getting people excited to do work not by telling them the actual actions they have to perform, but selling them a dream to long for and work towards. It could be that his goal was to get people to repeat his quote about building ships. And he did it by selling some dream about being motivational by telling a grand story.
- lstodd 7y agoCitation needed.