The Test Of An Invention Is The

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

All You Have Learned From History Is Old Ways Of Making Mistakes. There Is Nothing That History Can Tell You About What We Must Do Tomorrow. Only What We Must Not Do.

I Believe That Each Young Person Is Different From Any Other Who Has Ever Lived, As Different As His Fingerprints: That He Could Bring To The World A Wonderful And Special Way Of Solving Unsolved Problems, That In His Special Way, He Can Be Great.

We Took On Things Which People Might Think Would Take A Year Or Two. They Weren't Particularly Hard. What Was Hard Was Believing They Weren't Hard.

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.