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• Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
• It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and…
• There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
• An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
• 99 percent of success is built on failure.
• The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
• In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
• The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
• If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
• Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one…
• A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
• Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

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