Nature published a list of evolution gems to further disseminate evidence of natural selection. Reading the article, I found this beautiful quote:

Species evolve together, and in competition. Predators evolve ever deadlier weapons and skills to catch prey, which, as a result of Darwin’s canonical ‘struggle for existence’, become better at escaping them, and so the arms race continues. In 1973, evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen likened this to the Red Queen’s comment to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” The ‘Red Queen’ hypothesis of co-evolution was born.

This observation led me to the thought that innovation is even more wonderful than life in the Wonderland. To make a difference, i.e. to get somewhere with your invention, you must run at least 10 times as fast as the rest of the field. :)