You Must Expect Failure After Failure After

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!

Colour Is Always A Consequence, Never A Cause.

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

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.