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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.