Edwin Land Quotes - Page 2

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• You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

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  Reality, Perfect, Technique

  "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society", (Vol. 146, no. 1, p. 115), March 2002.

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• If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

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  Important, Able, Problem

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

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  Hard Work, Excess, Anything Worth Doing

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• Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

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  Causes, Colour, Consequence

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• All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

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  Mistake, History, Way

  "Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land" by Victor K. McElheny, (p. 198), 1998.

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• The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

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  Life, Science, Should

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• If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.

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  Dream, Emotional, Thinking

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• This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

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  Health, Science, Animal

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• A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

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  Acceptance, Science, Preparation

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• An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

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  Business, Acceptance, Science

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• The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

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  Ideas, Stopping, May

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• There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

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  Creativity, Individuality, Groups

  Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

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• It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

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  Research, Problem, Curious

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• We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

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  Believe, Science, Thinking

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• As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.

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  Creativity, Science, Creative

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• Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.

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  Competition, Important, Way

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• We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

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  Messages, Dramatic, Persuasive

  "Edwin H. Land : Science, And Public Policy" by Richard L. Garwin, November 9, 1991.

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• I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

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  Science, Engineering, Long

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• The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

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  Inspirational Life, Vision, Important

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• You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

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  Thinking, Heaven, Lines

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• [A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

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  Cameras, Polaroids

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• In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.

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  Spiritual, Country, Mean

  "Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science". Edwin Land's address at the ninth annual Arthur Dehon Little Memorial Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, groups.csail.mit.edu. May 22, 1957.

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• I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.

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  Believe, Special, Different

  "Generation of Greatness : The Idea of a University in an Age of Science". Edwin Land's Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, groups.csail.mit.edu. May 22, 1957.

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• Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?

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  Creating, Nucleus, Fields

  "The Future of Industrial Research : Papers and Discussion" edited by Thomas Midgley, 1945.

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• The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

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  Waiting, World, Fields

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