The Test Of An Invention Is The

There Is No Such Thing As Group Originality, Group Creativity Or Group Perspicacity.

An Essential Aspect Of Creativity Is Not Being Afraid To Fail. Scientists Made A Great Invention By Calling Their Activities Hypotheses And Experiments. They Made It Permissible To Fail Repeatedly Until In The End They Got The Results They Wanted. In Politics Or Government, If You Made A Hypothesis And It Didn't Work Out, You Had Your Head Cut Off.

Fifty Years After We Undertook To Make The First Synthetic Polarizers We Find Them The Essential Layer In Digital Liquid-crystal. And Thirty Four Years After We Undertook To Make The First Instant Camera And Film, Our Kind Of Photography Has Become Ubiquitous.

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.

The Test Of An Invention Is The Power Of An Inventor To Push It Through In The Face Of Staunch-not Opposition, But Indifference-in Society.