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.

This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

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.

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

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.