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 don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

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.

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.

One fails forward toward success.

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.