To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. There's no room for amateurs, even in crossing the streets. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Activity is the only road to knowledge. Most authority is malignant.