I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

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

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

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

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

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.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.