The World Belongs To The Articulate.

There's A Tremendous Popular Fallacy Which Holds That Significant Research Can Be Carried Out By Trying Things. Actually It Is Easy To Show That In General No Significant Problem Can Be Solved Empirically, Except For Accidents So Rare As To Be Statistically Unimportant. One Of My Jests Is To Say That We Work Empirically -- We Use Bull's Eye Empiricism. We Try Everything, But We Try The Right Thing First!

A Mistake Is A Future Benefit, The Full Value Of Which Is Yet To Be Realized.

I Don't Mind Conducting The Orchestra If I Can Play The Violin.

The Role Of Science Is To Be Systematic, To Be Accurate, To Be Orderly, But It Certainly Is Not To Imply That The Aggregated, Successful Hypotheses Of The Past Have The Kind Of Truth That Goes Into A Number System.

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.