Quote#Children
Young people must break machines to learn how to use them; get…
Quote byHenry Cavendish · 1731–1810
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 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..
English (original)
Young people must break machines to learn how to use them; get another made!
— Henry Cavendish
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