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

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.