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• Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

  Edwin Land

  Hard Work, Excess, Anything Worth Doing

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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.

  Edwin Land

  Waiting, World, Fields

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• Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Rooms, Obstacles

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• I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

  Edwin Land

  Dream, Believe, Greatness

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• Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

  Edwin Land

  Circles, Interesting, Cameras

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• In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

  Edwin Land

  Building, Significance, International

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

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• I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

  Edwin Land

  Dream, Real, Greatness

  "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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• The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.

  Edwin Land

  Essence, People, Democracy

  "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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• A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Thrill, Increase

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• If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it.

  Edwin Land

  Missing, Trying, Needs

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

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• Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

  Edwin Land

  Individuality, Mind, Originality

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

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• Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Years, Liquid

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• When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it before. It may be a backhand he uses, one that he may never have used before in that circumstance. His play is a fresh integration of his world at the instant of action. A really great scientist has the whole past at his disposal. At any instant he is rebuilding the world, molecule by molecule, in his subconscious. That is what you want in an athlete or a scientist.

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  Athlete, Past, Games

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• Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Art, Expression

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• The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Tests, Faces

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• There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

  Edwin Land

  Eye, Trying, Firsts

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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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.

  Edwin Land

  Thinking, Heaven, Lines

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• I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

  Edwin Land

  Play, Mind, Orchestra

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• You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

  Edwin Land

  Splits, Moments, Composition

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• We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

  Edwin Land

  Patents, Alive, World

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• Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

  Edwin Land

  Our Society, Knows

  Testimony in "The Public Television Act of 1967 : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications", by the United States Congress, (p. 167), 1967.

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• Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

  Edwin Land

  Science, Research, Can Do

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

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• There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

  Edwin Land

  Fun, Scientist, Circumstances

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• Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.

  Edwin Land

  Beautiful, Photography, Waiting

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• It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

  Edwin Land

  Intellectual, Might, Persuading

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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