"Young people must break machines to learn how to use them; get another made!"
— Henry Cavendish

January 1, 1970

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when he was told that one of his valuable instruments was broken by a young man, as quoted in Biographical Memoir of Henry Cavendish, by Georges Cuvier, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1828), p. 222.