There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
...from this day forward until the day you are buried, do two things each day. First, master a difficult old insight, and… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift,… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A significant invention must be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
