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...from This Day Forward Until The Day You Are Buried, Do Two Things Each Day. First, Master A Difficult Old Insight, And Second, Add Some New Piece Of Knowledge To The World Each Day.

Who Can Object To A Monopoly When Any New Company, If It Is Built Around A Scientific Nucleus, Can Create A New Monopoly Of Its Own By Creating A Wholly New Field?

I Say That Our System Of Tests And Grades, As It Now Exists, Is One Source Of The Low Yield Of Great Men From Our Universities. The Marking System Is A Traumatic Experience From Which Most Students Emerge With A Deep Determination Never To Get Into A Situation Where They Can Be Marked Again. They Just Won't Ever Again Take A Chance.

It Is A Curious Property Of Research Activity That After The Problem Has Been Solved The Solution Seems Obvious.

[a Polaroid Camera] Places Before You A Thing That Is More Of The Thing Than The Thing Was.