here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

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

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

One fails forward toward success.

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.