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
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
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 live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would… — 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
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
