Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably be used by the pragmatic man in the street — William Shockley Copy Share Image
The major cause for American Negroes intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and thus not remedial to a major… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectually rewarding and effective lives can easily be made… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know… — William Shockley Copy Share Image
“It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible. [Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]” — William Shockley Copy Share Image
If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the… — William Shockley Copy Share Image