Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.