The Russians never invent anything. All they have, they’ve got from others. Everything comes to them from abroad—the engineers, the machine-tools. Give them the most highly perfected bombing-sights. They’re capable of copying them, but not of inventing them.
Look up who said this quote. Then look back at your comment. Then think long and hard about what the resemblance says about your beliefs.
Literally the most prominent ethnicity of a country that was first to get into space.
Also, as a person with a math background, hearing that somebody says that is just funny to me in general (albeit, I am considering the usage of the word 'invent' as 'invent or discover' here). Like, have these people not heard of, for example, this obscure field of contemporary math called 'probability theory', the axiomatisation of which was done by Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, a Russian Soviet mathematician? I guess ideas such as 'measure' are too big for their thinking stoves.
Look up who said this quote. Then look back at your comment. Then think long and hard about what the resemblance says about your beliefs.
Literally the most prominent ethnicity of a country that was first to get into space.
Also, as a person with a math background, hearing that somebody says that is just funny to me in general (albeit, I am considering the usage of the word 'invent' as 'invent or discover' here). Like, have these people not heard of, for example, this obscure field of contemporary math called 'probability theory', the axiomatisation of which was done by Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, a Russian Soviet mathematician? I guess ideas such as 'measure' are too big for their thinking stoves.
I'd like to add: "It's not who does it first, it's who does it best."