¶ Intuition of the Child (3)
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Intuition of the Child:
"That dying thing was just a game being played. Grandfather can’t die. And I think that the child is right and the grownups are wrong. But this would be part of that genius, of really seeing grandfather as immortal.
Q. --“Where does the inventor come in?”
“The scientist discovers those principles that are operative in Universe; he discovers the principle of the lever. But the inventor is the one who finds ways of employing the lever. . . . You’ll find quite a complex of generalized principles. The inventor brings them together, then, and employs them, and reduces to practice. Now there’s also quite a lot of difference between a man who just invents an idea, and one who actually reduces to practice. When I talk about the inventor, I am really speaking about reducing to practice. So the artist, scientist, inventor–the artist is an articulator; he reduces to practice. And I feel that Leonardo was just exactly all three of those. And that is exactly what I think every child is born to be. But he gets very quickly pushed into corners because of his family being interested in this or that, or some friend of the family getting to him and saying, ‘Well, I think you ought to be a lawyer,’ and”
