# There Is No Great Invention by J. B. S. Haldane > "There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." > **— J. B. S. Haldane**, *Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (1924), widely attributed* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (1924), widely attributed. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Civilizational Handoff|Civilizational Handoff]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Continuity Circuit|Civilizational Continuity Circuit]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Marsification|Marsification]] - [[wiki/Synthetic Civilizational Substrate|Synthetic Civilizational Substrate]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." — J. B. S. Haldane, Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (1924), widely attributed https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jbs-haldane-no-great-invention ```