You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

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

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

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.