Edwin H. Land quotes - page 2

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. (Edwin H. Land)
My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had. View quote
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There are areas where untrained people may work effectively and with limited equipment. Our pupil doesn't need a big laboratory to do this, he needs freedom; he needs encouragement. View quote
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There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. View quote
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Haven't you wondered how they could have survived, when, in all of our experimental work every small change we make dies? View quote
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Most large industrial concerns are limited by policy to special directions of expansion within the well-established field of the company. View quote
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The search for that language, the search for the ways to tell young people what we know as we grow older - the permanent and wonderful things about life - will be one of the great functions of this system. View quote
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There is no tremor in what we call the "outside world" that is not locked by a thousand chains and gossamers to inner structures that vibrate and move with it and are a part of it. View quote
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You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. 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. View quote
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The fact that civilization is becoming more intricate must not mean that we treat men for a longer period as immature. View quote
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Each of these men felt secretly - it was his very special secret and his deepest secret - that he could be great. (Edwin H. Land)
The great contribution of science is to say that this second theory is nonsense. View quote
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This is the kind of change that survives. View quote
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Yet the very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be. But I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength. View quote
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Sharpen up the edges of ideas for the students in fields other than your own. View quote
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If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. View quote
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The scientist comes to the world and says, "I do not understand the divine source, but I know, in a way that I don't understand, that out of chaos I can make order, out of loneliness I can make friendship, out of ugliness I can make beauty." View quote
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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! View quote
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I believe it is pretty well established now that neither the intuition of the sales manager nor even the first reaction of the public is a reliable measure of the value of a product to the consumer. View quote
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As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. View quote
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Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist. (Edwin H. Land)
The view I am presenting proposes a mechanism more and more interlocked with the totality of the exterior. This mechanism has no separate existence at all, being in a thousand ways united with and continuously interacting with the whole exterior domain. View quote
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. View quote
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. View quote
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Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room. View quote
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