An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

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

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

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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