The Most Successful Men In The End

Great Discoveries And Improvements Invariably Involve The Cooperation Of Many Minds. I May Be Given Credit For Having Blazed The Trail, But When I Look At The Subsequent Developments I Feel The Credit Is Due To Others Rather Than To Myself.

Don't Keep Forever On The Public Road, Going Only Where Others Have Gone. Leave The Beaten Track Occasionally And Dive Into The Woods. You Will Be Certain To Find Something You Have Never Seen Before. Of Course It Will Be A Little Thing, But Do Not Ignore It. One Discovery Will Lead To Another, And Before You Know It, You Will Have Something Worth Thinking About To Occupy Your Mind, And Really Big Discoveries Are The Result Of Thought.

I Have Had The Feeling That A Properly Constructed Flying-machine Should Be Capable Of Being Flown As A Kite; And Conversely, That A Properly Constructed Kite Should Be Capable Of Use As A Flying-machine When Driven By Its Own Propellers.

Ordinary People Who Know Nothing Of Phonetics Or Elocution Have Difficulties In Understanding Slow Speech Composed Of Perfect Sounds, While They Have No Difficulty In Comprehending An Imperfect Gabble If Only The Accent And Rhythm Are Natural.

I Have Heard Articulate Speech Produced By Sunlight I Have Heard A Ray Of The Sun Laugh And Cough And Sing! … I Have Been Able To Hear A Shadow, And I Have Even Perceived By Ear The Passage Of A Cloud Across The Sun's Disk.