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… — 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 out the drive in the winner. — 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
