Edwin Land Quotes about Science

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

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.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

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

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.