"The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end."
— Patent

January 1, 1970

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Henry L. Ellsworth, commissioner of the Patent Office, 1843 report to Congress (note that the context is the increasing workload at the patent office) cited in Samuel Sass (1989) "A Patently False Patent Myth," in: Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 13, Spring 1989, pg. 310-313