The Present Is The Past Biting Into

Colour Is Always A Consequence, Never A Cause.

A Significant Inventionmust Be Startling, Unexpected. It Must Come To A World That Is Not Prepared For It.

Profundity And Originality Are Attributes Of Single, If Not Singular, Minds.

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.

As I Review The Nature Of The Creative Drive In The Inventive Scientists That Have Been Around Me, As Well As In Myself, I Find The First Event Is An Urge To Make A Significant Intellectual Contribution That Can Be Tangible Embodied In A Product Or Process.