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“An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.”

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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…

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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

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Don't do anything that someone else can do.

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The present is the past biting into the future.

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The world belongs to the articulate.

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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

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Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of…

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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring…

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There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

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A significant invention must be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain…

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