List of Edwin Land Quotes

The Role Of Science Is To Be Systematic, To Be Accurate, To Be Orderly, But It Certainly Is Not To Imply That The Aggregated, Successful Hypotheses Of The Past Have The Kind Of Truth That Goes Into A Number System.

The Bottom Line Is In Heaven!

If This Is Preparation For Life, Where In The World, Where In The Relationship With Our Colleagues, Where In The Industrial Domain, Where Ever Again, Anywhere In Life, Is A Person Given This Curious Sequence Of Prepared Talks And Prepared Questions, Questions To Which The Answers Are Known?

When Arthur Ashe Plays Tennis, His Purpose Each Day Is To Play The Game In A Way He Has Never Played It Before. It May Be A Backhand He Uses, One That He May Never Have Used Before In That Circumstance. His Play Is A Fresh Integration Of His World At The Instant Of Action. A Really Great Scientist Has The Whole Past At His Disposal. At Any Instant He Is Rebuilding The World, Molecule By Molecule, In His Subconscious. That Is What You Want In An Athlete Or A Scientist.

As I Visualize It, The Business Of The Future Will Be A Scientific, Social And Economic Unit. It Will Be Vigorously Creative In Pure Science Where Its Contributions Will Compare With Those Of The Universities...

There's No Scientist I Know Who Wouldn't Rather Be A Charlatan. And When Circumstances Allow You To Be Both, Why It's Great Fun!

An Essential Aspect Of Creativity Is Not Being Afraid To Fail. Scientists Made A Great Invention By Calling Their Activities Hypotheses And Experiments. They Made It Permissible To Fail Repeatedly Until In The End They Got The Results They Wanted. In Politics Or Government, If You Made A Hypothesis And It Didn't Work Out, You Had Your Head Cut Off.

Do Not Do Anything That Anyone Else Can Do Readily.

Look, If The Picture You Get Instantly Is As Beautiful As The Picture You Get By Waiting Seven Days, Then It Is Absolute Madness To Say That There Is Virtue In Waiting.

I Believe Quite Simply That The Small Company Of The Future Will Be As Much A Research Organization As It Is A Manufacturing Company.

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 Bringing Up A Child. You Don't Stop After You've Had It.

Aladdin In His Most Intoxicated Moments Would Never Have Dreamed Of Asking His [djinn] For [a Polaroid] ... It's Utterly New In Concept And Appearance, Utilizing An Utterly Revolutionary Flash System, An Utterly Revolutionary Viewing System, Utterly Revolutionary Electronics, And Utterly Revolutionary Film Structure.