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.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.