People See The Wrongness In An Idea

Research Is An Organized Method Of Trying To Find Out What You Are Going To Do After You Cannot Do What You Are Doing Now. It May Also Be Said To Be The Method Of Keeping A Customer Reasonably Dissatisfied With What He Has. That Means Constant Improvement And Change So That The Customer Will Be Stimulated To Desire The New Product Enough To Buy It To Replace The One He Has.

A Research Problem Is Not Solved By Apparatus; It Is Solved In A Man's Head.

If I Want To Stop A Research Program I Can Always Do It By Getting A Few Experts To Sit In On The Subject, Because They Know Right Away That It Was A Fool Thing To Try In The First Place.

People Think Of The Inventor As A Screwball, But No One Ever Asks The Inventor What He Thinks Of Other People.

Research Is Industrial Prospecting. The Oil Prospectors Use Every Scientific Means To Find New Paying Wells. Oil Is Found By Each One Of A Number Of Methods. My Own Group Of Men Are Prospecting In A Different Field, Using Every Possible Scientific Means. We Believe There Are Still Things Left To Be Discovered. We Have Only Stumbled Upon A Few Barrels Of Physical Laws From The Great Pool Of Knowledge. Some Day We Are Going To Hit A Gusher.