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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Edwin Land
Intellectual, Might, Persuading
"The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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.

Edwin Land
Education, Determination, Men

In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance.

Edwin Land
Small Changes, Organization, Waiting
"Generation of Greatness : The Idea of a University in an Age of Science". Edwin Land's Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, groups.csail.mit.edu. May 22, 1957.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

Edwin Land
Believe, Science, Organization
Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

Edwin Land
Children, Science, Color

Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.

Edwin Land
Asking, Electronics, Revolutionary

As I visualize it, the business of the future will be a scientific, social and economic unit. It will be vigorously creative in pure science where its contributions will compare with those of the universities...

Edwin Land
Creative, Economic, Social
Edwin Land's Statement to the US Senate Military Affairs Committee at the Joint Hearings on Science Bills, October 1945.

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.

Edwin Land
Creativity, Cutting, Government
"A Genius and His Magic Camera". LIFE magazine, October 27, 1972.

If this is preparation for life, where in the world, where in the relationship with our colleagues, where in the industrial domain, where ever again, anywhere in life, is a person given this curious sequence of prepared talks and prepared questions, questions to which the answers are known?

Edwin Land
Thinking, Preparation, Answers

The bottom line is in heaven!

Edwin Land
Business, Heaven, Lines
Speech at shareholders' meeting of Polaroid Corporation, 26 Apr. 1977

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.

Edwin Land
Successful, Past, Numbers
Edwin Herbert Land (1957). “Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science”

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