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Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Jules Verne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Jules Verne: documented activity in 1850. Wikidata Q33977, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33977 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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