Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain,… — 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