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Edwin Land Quotes about Creativity

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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Creativity, Creative, Stupidity

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

Creativity, Individuality, Groups

Edwin Herbert Land (1983). “Selected papers on industry”

As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.

Creativity, Science, Creative

True creativity is characterized by a succession of acts each dependent on the one before and suggesting the one after.

Creativity, Succession, Dependent

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.

Creativity, Cutting, Government

"A Genius and His Magic Camera". LIFE magazine, October 27, 1972.

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