Edwin Land Quotes
- Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
- Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.
- Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
- An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
- Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.
- Every creative act is a sudden cessation of stupidity.
- Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after…
- Do not undertake the program unless the goal is manifestly important and its achievement nearly impossible.
- A significant invention must be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.