The evolution of devices

All the first antecedents of man's devices were given him by Nature. Every one of his devices is traceable back to something in nature which suggested the first remote and primitive beginnings of its evolution. And every feature in art that man's mind conceived is conceived by a mind that has evolved as a part of nature: that grew out of nature.

The evolution of devices is as much a natural process as the evolution of organisms.

  1. ​The Evolution of Useful Things​

In all of history, not a single new thing has ever been made.