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Edwin Hubbel Chapin: "Pikirkan sejenak agen-agen hebat dan mesin-mesin...

"Pikirkan sejenak agen-agen hebat dan mesin-mesin peradaban kita, dan kemudian pikirkan ide-ide bayangan seperti apa mereka dulu. Roda kapal uap berputar secepat yang mereka lakukan sekarang, tetapi senyap dan tidak penting seperti gerakan pikiran si penemu; dan di dalam alat meditasinya yang tak bersuara, terjalin otot-otot mesin cetak, yang guruhnya mengguncang dunia."

--- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.