A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person — 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… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics… — 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… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
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… — 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… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
When Arthur Ashe plays tennis, his purpose each day is to play the game in a way he has never played it… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true… — 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
