Inventions and Discoveries

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Inventions and Discoveries

T.E. Lawrence once said, "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible" (Wilson, 2012). The quote is true for men who dared to dream for better humankind did so by creating inventions that would go on to discover many great things. Not all inventions are intended for evil purposes; while most inventions are intended for the greater good. Discoveries were meant to help, rather than destroy, in which the telescope and microscope were for the greater good. Some may argue that in history of mankind, these inventions...