Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

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

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

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

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.