“Nicholas Murray Butler was one of the leading thinkers of his age: a philosopher, Nobel Peace Prize winner, the president of Columbia University. In 1911, someone asked Butler to name the most important invention of the industrial era. Steam, perhaps? Electricity? ‘No,’ he said. ‘They would both “be reduced to comparative impotence’ without “the greatest single discovery of modern times. ‘ “
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