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Significant Quotes by Edwin Land
- 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…
- Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a…
- A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
- A significant invention must be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.
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