Why Do I Want To Believe What

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.

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.

In A Few Wretched Buildings, We Created A Whole New Industry With International Significance.

It Is A Curious Property Of Research Activity That After The Problem Has Been Solved The Solution Seems Obvious.

[the Polaroid Camera Is] A System That Will Be A Partner In Perception, Enabling Us To See The Objects In The World Around Us More Vividly Than We Can See Them Without It, A System To Be An Aid To Memory And A Tool For Exploration.