Science Is A Method To Keep Yourself

An Invention That Is Quickly Accepted Will Turn Out To Be A Rather Trivial Alteration Of Something That Has Already Existed.

The First Thing You Do Is Teach The Person To Feel That The Vision Is Very Important And Nearly Impossible. That Draws Out The Drive In The Winner.

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.

I Believe Each Incoming Freshman [in College] Must Be Started At Once On His Own Research Project If We Are To Preserve His Secret Dream Of Greatness And Make It Come True.

If You Sense A Deep Human Need, Then You Go Back To All The Basic Science. If There Is Some Missing, Then You Try To Do More Basic Science And Applied Science Until You Get It. So You Make The System To Fulfill That Need, Rather Than Starting The Other Way Around, Where You Have Something And Wonder What To Do With It.